They took away my blue baby

[Seano]

How many km's have you done?

Just rolled past 110,000km

[BlackVr6ix]

Sometimes batterys will just "drop" a cell which will create a massive resistance in the battery and it will not produce any power at all.

5 years out of a stocko battery is extremely good. I have people with astra's and vectras replacing there stock batterys after less than 2 years!

[shogun2]

Solitaire mechs were working on the car today (why has it taken three days for them to get to work checking the battery?). They found the DP chip. Will be interesting - from the sound of the enquiry they may try to pin the blame on the DP chip for drawing too much juice. Interesting times ahead. Will keep everyone informed.

[Seano]

why has it taken three days for them to get to work checking the battery?

Easy. It's a warranty claim. No profit in it and as VW won't rush to pay then they won't rush to repair.

[shogun2]

Baby (elephant) will be ready to pick up later today.
They have blamed the fault on a faulty door sensor they identified last service (4 months ago) that they have been waiting on parts to replace. So they have been "pushed" to finally replace the sensor - will see how it all goes.