Most recently answered batteries questions

Does this win the prize for the most optimistic claim for product failure? Last week my dealer-maintained Rover 75's original manufacturer-fitted battery failed after barely nine and a half years. Is Rover...

I'm confused with all the data one reads in the newspaper regarding battery driven cars. These are the facts that I have read. Are they correct?
1.Price £20,000 to £30,000
2.To renew batteries £8,000...

I have a 2000X BMW 530D estate, which my father had owned from nearly new. Over the past 8 months it has developed an intermittent battery drain fault and I was hoping you may have some clues about what...

Regarding battery leakdowns, I have a friend who is a modern auto electrician, by which I mean he has all the latest kit code readers, etc., but for a suspect earth he does the following: Connect a multi...

We live in Hong Kong but spend 4-5 weeks each summer in the UK. My wife bought a 2005 Mini Cooper (not the 'S' model) Automatic 1,598cc with 47,000 km on the clock earlier this year (trouble free so far,...

I have water leaking into the battery compartment of a 2006 BMW 525D. This caused a breakdown and major electrical problems which will cost me about £1,000.
BMW have not identified the cause of the...

I am a regular reader of your excellent columns in the Telegraph, however, the following points do not seem to have been covered. Nothing appears to have been said in the media about the effect of operating...

The AA and other forms of assistance are kept extraordinarily busy at Royal Ascot re-charging the flat batteries of innumerable Range Rovers: this is an annual performance that I have been witnessing for...

I've heard there can be problems changing a battery in a fob key. Is this true or can you just simply change it?

I have a 2006 Volvo XC70 D5 SE with the safety package which included the built in phone and the Volvo "on call" system.
The car was in fabulous condition and had only about 29,000 miles on the clock,...