EFB versus AGM Battery

[Hillbilly]

OK I ended up buying a Yuasa AGM 70 Ah ISSYDIN65LH 36 months warranty from Battery World fitting was perfect a few errors reset after driving, I coded the new battery using an OBD11 all looks good. DIN65LH MF AGM ISS Yuasa Battery - Battery World Cost was $399.95

Did you change the battery type to FLEECE

[Tuan]

Did you change the battery type to FLEECE

yep agm/fleece, serial update etc.

[gregozedobe]

yep agm/fleece, serial update etc.

"AGM/Fleece" or "AGM Binary" ?

Just "Fleece" is the correct battery type for an AGM battery, AGM-Binary is wrong (it is very different type of battery that AFAIK is not yet available for cars on the retail market).

[ABCD]

Thought I would chime in to a VW Battery thread with my recent experience. Dead battery on a 2018 VW Golf. Have that VW Roadside Assist as part of warranty so called them. Bloke arrives in a van full of batteries - no affiliation to VW or any Roadside Assistance provider.
Generic AGM battery $465 supplied and fitted, I stuck and needed it sorted, so went with it. I asked him about coding the new battery - completely oblivious, told me to call VW Roadside Assistance if any problems, and off he went. Allegedly a 2 year warranty on the battery provided not by VW but this outfit, assuming I can find them again.
Moral of story? Beware VW Roadside assistance for sourcing a replacement battery. You will pay top dollar and won't get a VW/OEM or even VW approved battery, that won't be correctly fitted (ie coded) and possibly a real headache to sort out under warranty if it is faulty.

[Hillbilly]

Thought I would chime in to a VW Battery thread with my recent experience. Dead battery on a 2018 VW Golf. Have that VW Roadside Assist as part of warranty so called them. Bloke arrives in a van full of batteries - no affiliation to VW or any Roadside Assistance provider.
Generic AGM battery $465 supplied and fitted, I stuck and needed it sorted, so went with it. I asked him about coding the new battery - completely oblivious, told me to call VW Roadside Assistance if any problems, and off he went. Allegedly a 2 year warranty on the battery provided not by VW but this outfit, assuming I can find them again.
Moral of story? Beware VW Roadside assistance for sourcing a replacement battery. You will pay top dollar and won't get a VW/OEM or even VW approved battery, that won't be correctly fitted (ie coded) and possibly a real headache to sort out under warranty if it is faulty.

Is about the price I paid for a new one for my Passat several years ago so not out of the way. Not hard to code it with an OBD11

[ABCD]

I ended up using this experience as an excuse to join the OBD11 club and got the battery coded.
My issue was being duped by VW Roadside Assistance. Not unreasonable to assume that if sourcing a battery from VW Assist that it would be VW approved AND be correctly fitted including the coding. Instead I got a bloke in a Batteries - R - Us van selling car batteries who seemingly knew nothing about correctly fitting the battery. I have no way of knowing if the battery is VW approved or not, and I am pretty sure he didn't know either - his gig was simply to respond to flat battery call outs and sell replacement batteries. I got 4 years out of the original factory fitted battery (which came with 3 year warranty) yet whatever I now have in the car is only good for 2 years, assuming I can ever find this outfit again.

[Hillbilly]

I ended up using this experience as an excuse to join the OBD11 club and got the battery coded.
My issue was being duped by VW Roadside Assistance. Not unreasonable to assume that if sourcing a battery from VW Assist that it would be VW approved AND be correctly fitted including the coding. Instead I got a bloke in a Batteries - R - Us van selling car batteries who seemingly knew nothing about correctly fitting the battery. I have no way of knowing if the battery is VW approved or not, and I am pretty sure he didn't know either - his gig was simply to respond to flat battery call outs and sell replacement batteries. I got 4 years out of the original factory fitted battery (which came with 3 year warranty) yet whatever I now have in the car is only good for 2 years, assuming I can ever find this outfit again.

Apart from buying one from a dealer I dont know of any VW "approved" batteries, in fact never heard of that Polo got one from Battery World which met specs and lasted OK The Passat one lasted till I sold it over 3 years later. Tiguan one was getting tired after 3 years of only getting used for short trips once a week at the most. It had an EFL and I would have replaced it with an AGM but sold the car instead.