Battery flat

[Spooky128]

Hi all came back from holiday today to find the kuga battery flat, got the AA round and he says we might need a new battery due to how slow the recharge is , the car is a 18 plate so a little miffed as anyone had this problem and anyone know how long warranty is on battery.? Tia

 

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[JAKE191]

HI the battery is covered for 3 years so you are covered 

[pragmatix]

You may need to get a the fast charge  checked.

[Jonathan Dawson]

Just changed the battery of my Kuga (with stop/start) - it was 4 years old. Bought new one from Halfords - good price and service.

JD

[iantt]

5 hours ago, Jonathan Dawson said:

Just changed the battery of my Kuga (with stop/start) - it was 4 years old. Bought new one from Halfords - good price and service.

JD

Did Halfords reset the battery monitoring system?

[Flatkuga]

Our 2019 Kuga 1.5 has gone fully flat twice in 2021.  Possibly due to leaving our mobility scooter hoist arm switched on. 

Recharging by the RAC got it going both times BUT then it missed so very badly it would not drive.  

As  last resort on the first occasion, the Engineer disconnected the battery and reconnected after 5 minutes. 

Sure enough, it reset a scrambled set of engine parameters to their default and it ran perfect. 

6 weeks later the engine light indicted and it turned out it needed a new catalytic converter. (9500 miles on the clock!). Suspect 1/2 hr of running in its missing state while disconnecting each injector in turn to see if one was faulty, may have put so much fuel through the Cat it killed it. 

So, 3 months later (11,000 miles on the clock), today July 31st  21 it went flat after about 10 days - but we had left the hoist on again. Sure enough, the RAC engineer jumped started it and it once again missed badly for 20 seconds before turning off for fear of killing the cat again.  I recounted the first event, which is not on the RAC database and he checked the battery to find it was indeed in a poor state with high resistance under load, so changed the battery for a new one figuring the delay could well cause the engine parameters to reset & default.  It did reset and now runs fine.    

Concluded Ford Kugas probably have a couple of issues both with poor quality batteries out the factory and an engine management system that loses its parameter memory, possibly because the auto-locking and mirror movements it attempts but cant complete with a flat battery cause multiple resets that scramble the settings.   Hope this helps