mpgscott 21 Report post Posted Monday at 07:00 PM Hi All, Well thats me just got the car back after my ignition key saga (anyone with a diamond key please think carefully about swapping out the ignition barrel while you can) so car was at the garage and they have said the battery is not holding a charge. Its a Lion 019 battery from ECP bought last August so will get it swapped out. Anyway for now the garage gave me a 95Ah AGM battery to use for the moment, there isnt an issue with the car i checked via ISTA and all looking ok nothing in the high current draw all cycles looking fine. I had the car re-coded recently from it being a 110Ah originally to this 95Ah battery thats failed. However this was after a couple of months of it being in the car so not sure if that would have caused the problem. The question i have is, that should i recode in for the AGM even if its a temporary placment? Just think i will fit the normal 95Ah one back in once i get a replacment from ECP. Whats the thoughts should i just recode for the AGM regardless or will a few days be ok? Thanks as usual. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JasonH 165 Report post Posted Monday at 09:27 PM I wouldn't bother. The risk you have with a temporary AGM battery is overcharging it. But unless the battery is already 100% and you then decided to drive for hours at a time you won't fully charge it anyway. Each time you unlock and start the car you'll take a chunk of charge out of the battery, So for a couple of days unless you are doing long journeys I doubt you'll do any harm. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mpgscott 21 Report post Posted Monday at 09:35 PM 6 minutes ago, JasonH said: I wouldn't bother. The risk you have with a temporary AGM battery is overcharging it. But unless the battery is already 100% and you then decided to drive for hours at a time you won't fully charge it anyway. Each time you unlock and start the car you'll take a chunk of charge out of the battery, So for a couple of days unless you are doing long journeys I doubt you'll do any harm. Needing to do a couple of hundred miles, so might need to code it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JasonH 165 Report post Posted Monday at 09:46 PM Fair enough. Yes if coded for lead acid and doing a few hundred miles you could well overcharge an AGM. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mpgscott 21 Report post Posted Monday at 11:11 PM 1 hour ago, JasonH said: Fair enough. Yes if coded for lead acid and doing a few hundred miles you could well overcharge an AGM. Hi Jason, Do you happen to know, when coding in the agm battery so I set the vo from my current -B90 to be -A90 for the 95Ah agm battery. However when you edit the FSW_PSW.TRC file do you need to alter anything as this is already set to 90? Just can’t see anything that you add into this file to tell it’s agm which I don’t think you need to as it’s simply showing the Ah? so would I be right in thinking I don’t need to alter this file? Finally I will register with Ista+ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JasonH 165 Report post Posted Tuesday at 08:25 AM Sorry I can't help on the coding side. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mpgscott 21 Report post Posted Tuesday at 09:10 AM 44 minutes ago, JasonH said: Sorry I can't help on the coding side. No worries, looks like i need to change the 'KLASSE_BATTERIE BATTERY TYPE' to be '90ah_agm' happy days.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
