Drove from the south coast up to Cannock and back yesterday the battery reading when started journey read 12.2v and after that trip of 200/300 miles it only read just now after letting it rest 12.4v. So it had only gone up 0.2v with several hours of travelling time. looks as if I shall have to get a CTEK MXS 5.0 CHARGER. Oh alternator is charging at 14.something or other volts, so that is ok Ex 2010 Freelander2 GS-e Diesel manual Silver owner

I've just bought a Ctek 5. You can get them for 55 quid on eBay and Amazon. We have a RAC smart charger at work that was telling me my battery was fully charged. The Ctek charger took 2 hours to tell me the battery was charged but I could see all the different phases of charging it was going through. I've read good things about Ctek. I'm going regularly keep topping my battery up. I do 12 miles aday, I've got stop start on my car which hasn't been working well. I've been visiting my mum due to ill health which is around 80 miles round trip and now the stop start is great. So I reckon I'm not doing enough mileage so hopefully the new charger will help keep the battery going. Black MY2013 SD4 GS Auto, Wood Company Armrest, Freel2 sticker.
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realspeed wrote:

Drove from the south coast up to Cannock and back yesterday the battery reading when started journey read 12.2v and after that trip of 200/300 miles it only read just now after letting it rest 12.4v. So it had only gone up 0.2v with several hours of travelling time. looks as if I shall have to get a CTEK MXS 5.0 CHARGER. Oh alternator is charging at 14.something or other volts, so that is ok

yes some south african fellow george someone? used to rattle on and on about top up charges when the wasnt rattling about 2stroke oil. he never showed any proof of either,

for me if a battery is failing get a new one dont spend money on a charger then prat about charging every night at some electricity cost, only to have the battery fail the first time you park it overnight away from its charger. At work
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Started to get interested in the new Nissan Xtrail when it goes on for sale the middle of this month,ok its only 1.6ltr
but next year they are bringing out a 2 ltr version.So may hang on for that instead as we don,t really need 2 cars now Ex 2010 Freelander2 GS-e Diesel manual Silver owner

I know a nissan dealership manager. He's seen one and said they are a good car. He is getting one soon so I will go and have a look at it. Black MY2013 SD4 GS Auto, Wood Company Armrest, Freel2 sticker.
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just ordered a CTEK5.0 battery charger Ex 2010 Freelander2 GS-e Diesel manual Silver owner

Do you realize that the cost of a new battery, that last, normally, at least 4-5 years, is the cost of a tank full of fuel??
How many tank fulls you pay in 4-5 years?
The equivalent of one more, for peace of mind is so little...

Ok just received my CTEK MXS 5.0 battery charger and how I do wish people like these actually read what they print on the box against the user manual.

On the side of the box it clearly states in section4 Quote" press the MODE-button to select charging option AGM or RECON." unquote

In the User manual on page 6 step 6 RECON Quote " Choose the Recond program to add the Recon step to the charging process, etc" Unquote

So I rang Ctek and all he could say was although unsure " you don't use the recon step on an AGM battery". What made it worse he didn't even have a copy of the user manual to look at even though I told him several times the page and sub section.

What a poor service when even the supplier doesn't know where to look for instructions as he had something entirely different to look at

Surely this MUST have been raised several times before, I can't believe I am the only one to do so.

Having dealt with several legal matters regarding selling a business with employees and property, and purchasing another property, being precise as to what is written is so important so as not to leave the reader in some confusion I have come to realise. Ex 2010 Freelander2 GS-e Diesel manual Silver owner

That's interesting. I did a recon charge on mine! I looked through the manual and it said just keep pressing mode until agm recon lit up. I'll double check the manual tonight but I'm sure there was a picture in it showing the different stages of charging/recon for an AGM battery. I'm planning on getting a new battery this winter but have been meaning to get a charger for a while for just incase me or the wife has a flat battery. Black MY2013 SD4 GS Auto, Wood Company Armrest, Freel2 sticker.
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This was the red button latest version where as I mentioned the confusion can occur Ex 2010 Freelander2 GS-e Diesel manual Silver owner

You can have 'Normal', 'AGM' or 'Recond' but you can't recondition an AGM battery, only a Normal one.

It is wrong how they have worded it in the charging programme steps, it gives you the impression that you can recondition an AGM battery, but you can't.

alex_pescaru wrote:

Do you realize that the cost of a new battery, that last, normally, at least 4-5 years, is the cost of a tank full of fuel??
How many tank fulls you pay in 4-5 years?
The equivalent of one more, for peace of mind is so little...

Absolutely Alex
However the "reasoning" of the motoring public often defeats a learned examination.

The battery has now gone from 12.2v to 13.1 with that CTEK charger, it did go up to no 7,but I switched it off for a short time and reconnected it and it has gone back to no 4 so will leave it overnight and see what happens. It is showing a charge rate of 14.6 volts across the terminals which about the same as the alternator output Ex 2010 Freelander2 GS-e Diesel manual Silver owner

EYorkshire wrote:

You can have 'Normal', 'AGM' or 'Recond' but you can't recondition an AGM battery, only a Normal one.

It is wrong how they have worded it in the charging programme steps, it gives you the impression that you can recondition an AGM battery, but you can't.