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tigertrout

tigertrout

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My macan wouldnt start again this morning,flat battery. After the car spending a week in the dealer only a few weeks ago with the same problem and them saying they cant find anything wrong.Not sure where i go from here.Any advise would be appreciated.
 
This may or may not be relevant:

There have been some issues like this with some other 'reputable makes' due to a faulty bluetooth module. Apparently the system kept looking for a mobile phone connection way after the car has been left supposedly switched off. In other words the cars electronics never properly shut down and went into a loop until there was no power left in the battery. A further problem was that this issue did not show up on any of the dealers diagnostic equipment and wasn't recorded within the cars fault code in the ECU. In fact the only way it was found on the aforementioned vehicles was through the manufacturers own 'in-house' investigations and finding that there was a fault with a particular small batch of bluetooth modules then informing the dealers to replace them on certain vehicles.

As I said this may not be relevant but as automotive electronics are getting ever more complicated so does the fault finding.

Best of luck.

 
Hi Nick
Many thanks for the reply.I will mention this to porsche reading as they are still scratching there heads over what is causing this.
 
Got my macan back today. This time they changed the battery which they said was faulty and not holding the charge. Hopefully it will be ok now.!!
 
Glad your back on the road.
I don't want to be pessimistic but thats exactly what happened to me the second time all electricity was lost (i.e. told it was faulty battery). The 3rd time I was on holiday in France! - I would suggest you ask Reading to provide you with a spare battery and some jump leads until your confidence is fully restored.


 
Just to help, neighbour has an XFS when new did exactly the same. Leave for a period and none start. Looking on forums for his appeared known issue with faulty batch of batteries. Dealer would not accept this and when it failed yet again my neighbour instructed the dealership to change battery at his expense. They changed it did not charge him and to this day the car is fine. Hope yours is similar as it does take shine off the new car excitment
 
This time they said they took the battery out of the car fully charged it and left it overnight and it had lost 50% within 24hrs.Why they didnt do this first time round who knows.
Fingers crossed.
 
Well done
Hopefully you can get back to enjoying your Macan now (perhaps downgrade the spare battery and jump leads to just jump leads now [:)])
 
Our 8th month old Evoque did the same last year the AA call out who now cover Jag Landrover breakdowns said there had been a bad batch of the new glassmat tech batteries. That was a straighforward replacement battery at the dealership or could have been but they failed to tighten the neg terminal, and left the positive and negative terminals of the start stop booster battery completely off. The AA man who had come the evening before then returned and just lifted the positive cable off the battery with no force at all. The wife's Evoque dash had been flashing on and off for her short journey home. The AA man sorted it and was going to submit a report I reported it to the Service Manager and he said he would look into it, I heard nothing back I then contacted the Dealer principle, I hear the Service Manager has now left the Landrover dealership it seems I wasn't alone in receiving poor service but one disgruntled Customer took his complaint to the Top man at JLR. No manufacturer can prevent bad supplier batches its how they treat the Customer after such equipment fails.

Paul
 
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