I read a recent reply of yours to a Honda CR-V owner whose stop/start isn't working, where you advised a new battery. We recently bought a 2013 CR-V with a 12 month warranty from a main dealer and the stop/start ceased working after about a week. It didn't restart for four months - even after a four hour drive. The local Honda service agent checked the car (the main dealer is 60 miles away) and said that the battery was 75 per cent charged and 'good', but suggested to the dealer that replacing the battery would be sensible. The dealer doesn't want to do this. When I asked the local agent why the battery wasn't fully charged he said that the alternator only keeps a battery to its existing charge level, which I frankly don't believe. I thought the whole point of an alternator was that it charged a battery to, but not over, its capacity.