JohnGuppy
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When away for two week break and left our friends New WV golf in the car park , the driver left his dash cam on , on our return guess what flat battery called our RAC got jump start and drove off came up to a set of lights guess what the engine stopped !!!!! and would not start , we said to same RAC guy who came out again saying we had run the car for 30mins and had cut out via stop start , after restarting again and showing us how to turn OFF the stop start
Interesting thing he said was VW cars don't charge after starting after jump start but only charge a little to keep the engine running , he showed us with a clamp meter was only charging 3 amps and said you will need to drive 50miles to recharge the battery once fully warmed up , I can see why gives more MPG and less power loss on the engine it seems the days of a jump start and drive 10 miles charge you battery are no more
This will relate to our leisure batterys when doing short journey's
Interesting thing he said was VW cars don't charge after starting after jump start but only charge a little to keep the engine running , he showed us with a clamp meter was only charging 3 amps and said you will need to drive 50miles to recharge the battery once fully warmed up , I can see why gives more MPG and less power loss on the engine it seems the days of a jump start and drive 10 miles charge you battery are no more
This will relate to our leisure batterys when doing short journey's
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