I think as soon as I start reading about a problem on here it happens to me. I was reading about the battery problems, so when trying to start our freelander earlier in the week the battery would not spin it over. I charged it left until Saturday and it started and did a 20 mile round trip to shop. Sunday morning dead again. Lesson don’t read other people problems then it will not happen to me. 😋. Off to the garage to get new battery fitted today hopefully.

Xmas present to the freelander, one new battery fitted.

do you know how old was the old battery was ? Jules

I did ask our of curiosity how old it was and they said that they could not find a a date on it, it was a yussa battery. They put a reader machine on it and said although fully charged it only had 40% capacity, so it was no good. Normal garage was shut for Xmas till 6 jan so not a lot of choice.

How long have you had the FL2 and i presume it was the same battery when you purchased the car so that gives you idea of how old the battery is

We have had the freelander about 3.5 years now. To be fair the battery does do a lot of sitting around not being used as the freelander is basically used to tow the caravan, not a shopping or daily ride. I guess the battery has to be a few years old at least. Just luck of the draw

It may pay for you to invest in a trickle charger, if the FL2 is sitting for long periods, or give it a couple of good runs during the week.

I do try to remember to put the smart charger on regularly, but yes a little trickle charger on all the time would be better. Just remember to unplug before driving off.🤣

In an earlier post (that I can't find) Jules reminded us that we should always connect to a chassis earth and not the battery negative terminal as the Battery Management System needs to know how much is going into, and out, of the battery.
I believe that the false reading may effect subsequent alternator charging during normal driving.


---- and if all else fails ----
there's the Blue Wire
https://www.freel2.com/forum/topic40180.html?highlight=blue+wire FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
FL2 Metropolis SD4 Auto 2014 2017- (16k - 79k+ miles) (MY2015)
Metro in its 11th Year of (Extended) LR Warranty / Full LR Service History
(Expensive, but Trouble/Worry free - hopefully?)

Oh right. So if putting those permanent leads on , one would go on the battery and the other on the metal work somewhere ?

The handbook says remove battery before charging to protect car systems. ????

Although I normally use the Jump Start instructions for were to terminate negative end.
(page 169 in handbook -- P178 in download https://www.axelzone.ro/car/lr/fl2_handbook_2012.pdf )
i.e upper engine mount bolt at chassis end FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
FL2 Metropolis SD4 Auto 2014 2017- (16k - 79k+ miles) (MY2015)
Metro in its 11th Year of (Extended) LR Warranty / Full LR Service History
(Expensive, but Trouble/Worry free - hopefully?)

My battery failed last week, 2 months outside of its 4 year warranty. Lots of random error codes were showing and the key fob wouldn't come out of the dock. A new battery fixed everything and it starts fine now.

If in doubt, get a new battery

It did cross my mind when they said that they was unable to see the age of the battery and they used to sell that brand, it was because they didn’t want to be involved in a claim.