Thread: persistent electric fault indicators

I'd recommend the Varta battery (Obviously diesel variant). Has it recently started doing it or has this been happening for a while now? Have you had any tests done on your current battery?

Yeah the battery that I was offered which came straight from a reference book looked naff lol I prefer the bigger batteries myself lol, just looks like it's right for the job

http://www.carbatteryshop.co.uk/i-Type-027-Varta-Silver-Dynamic-Car-Battery-12V-63Ah-Short-Code-D15-Varta-DIN-562-103-060-or-563-400-061-I3190.html

This battery should be suffice, and being a 1.9 you'd do well to have a powerful battery. How powerful is the battery in your car at the moment? Not sure if the battery would cure all of the problems but having no experience with the JTD and never coming across the problems before, it's worth a go. It's a long shot but I'd check the condition of the battery terminals on the car (Particularly the live terminal) as if anything happens to these, you'll have trouble (As I found out).

Although if you replaced your battery 18 months ago and it's intermittent, I'd say it's something else?

Perhaps it's worth having the battery cells checked before moving onto another battery. If the one in the link above is that much more powerful than yours, then I'd recommend it. If, on the other hand, it's not much different, I would suspect it's not the battery in question. Worth checking all the same though.

Have you had a diagnostic test done on the car?

here you go mate, this is the battery i run in my 1.2, it should be more than enough to run your jtd
Type 096 Varta Silver Dynamic Car Battery 12V 74Ah (Short Code: E38) (Varta DIN: 575 121 072 or 574 402 075) - Car Batteries - Varta Car Batteries