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Replaced battery like fir like AGM. All sorted now.

original battery, AGM I think. ill get it tested tomorrow. thanks for the advise

Hi 1.7 is with the new alternator. when the alternator failed the charge cycle stopped when engine on, it ran down rapidly over a day. barely made it home from the shop.

Alternator : output 14.7 V 140Amp. it does not require coding to the car. the car was being a bit odd, . I put my bluetooth battery monitor from Caravan on the car and the voltage was dropping each day, when engine running it continued to drop. charging seened to stop completly. new alternator in. which was a pain as had toremove bumper to get it out as engine is a V6. anyway safe to say im a expert at taking the front off he car now. Starter motor : had just driven to friends house 30 min away. stopped in drive way, went to move the car about a min later, made few bad attempts to start then v bad burn smell from front of car. I disconnected batter quickely as worried about fire. When Finally got the starter motor out serious smell of burn. a mechanic friend was there at the time and said it had burned out. I had no problems with the car until last few weeks. While it is draining, you cant start the car. once you wait until it comes back up to about 12.2 engine starts fine. does ot matter if short trip or long trip. I must not try to start car when its draining. I did go to batter company mths back, they said battery was fine, they kept it overnight to charge. this was around the time the alternator failed. Ill go back again as perhaps between alternator and starter motor stresses I may have damaged the battery.

Before opening car avg 12.5 12.6v. When unlocked droops rapidly close to or below 12v. If I try to start car during this time very difficult or fails to start. But if I wait. After about 5 min the voltage starts to climb back up slowly. Once at about 12.2v it’s fine to start. I have been taking out fuses to watch for the jump back up. No luck so far. I did confuse tge hell out of car and it eventually refused to start. Removed batt leads and shorted together for 30 min to clear ecu men. Then started fine. anyone Come across this issue. btw replaced alternator about 6 mths back and starter motor about 3 mths ago. Car has 250k mikes on it.