Angela Poole Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 I have a 2020 Ford Puma and I am having problems with the battery keeping on going dead on me. Went to start the car on Monday and it wouldn’t open have to open with emergency key but car wouldn’t start had to call out Ford roadside assist. Today the same happened has anyone else had this problem 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Two years is a short life for a battery and cold temperatures tend to point out any weaknesses. I need a bit more information. How often is the car used and how far is it driven daily? A car needs forty fairly brisk miles to recharge a battery or thereabouts. If you didn't do that or put it on a charger since Monday, there may not be a fault at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jollyandy Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 23 hours ago, Angela Poole said: I have a 2020 Ford Puma and I am having problems with the battery keeping on going dead on me. Went to start the car on Monday and it wouldn’t open have to open with emergency key but car wouldn’t start had to call out Ford roadside assist. Today the same happened has anyone else had this problem Hi, it’s a well known Puma problem. Usually when you book your car into a Ford dealer, the fix is to replace the original battery which more often than not is a “Rombat” manufactured battery with a Varta battery, and in some cases perform a software update. When we bought our Puma, I changed the original battery for a reasonably new Yuasa brand battery, which I’d taken off my Mk8 Fiesta before it was traded in, and as such it has proved to be a worthwhile swap. The car has only had different sounding reversing tones (a symptom of low battery charge) once after standing up for a week. To be fair though the replacement battery has a higher Ah rating than the original. I’m not suggesting that anyone with battery problems goes down this route, as it should be up to Ford to sort this issue, however, as I had the higher capacity battery sitting in the garage, I decided to change it, unaware at the time that owners were having problems with the original batteries, and it has so far been a worthwhile change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Bloodaxe Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 13 hours ago, Jollyandy said: it’s a well known Puma problem. There's a lengthy thread here, for example: https://www.pumaforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=850 The Rombat battery is certainly mentioned as a possible culprit, but I do wonder if it's mainly just the "normal" issue with modern cars we see on thread after thread on here - infrequent/irregular use - and the answer might be the same - regularly charge with a "smart" charger? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norvern Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Have you had any notifications on your app that the car has gone into sleep mode to preserve battery life? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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