Thanks for the heads up TS. Thankfully your parents are all okay. From what I heard certain mechanics shop pipul purposely shorten the lifespan of the battery to 2 years and they keep recycling to new victim

Bezza 1.3 don’t have start stop feature only myvi iinm

Well not sure consider fortunate or unfortunate, my Bezza just reached 2 year old few days ago, its stock battery died today before CNY. Luckily it died before I plan to go outstation to my parent's hometown...

My parents used my car go pasar, they both didn't bring their phones out. Eventually they had to pinjam pasar stall owner phone in order to call me to get the other family car out to jumpstart. My parent's didn't give precise location had to ronda around just to find my car, with the vague location my parents gave.

My Bezza had a cheapo MrDIY jumper but when I attempted to jumpstart and charge with my Honda City Battery + Engine for like 30 minutes using the proper connection setup was useless, I tried to charge it from 8.5V to 12.5V also unable to jump start. It's battery electrochemistry seems too weak, might not be enough current and voltage to jump start.



Eventually I ordered Carput's Battery Replacement for an AMARON GO Series 38B20L for RM 275.

Then a random good samaritan came by, and bring his thicker gauge Jumper cable. And told me not to connect to the metal body of my dead car, instead directly onto the Negative Terminal of my Bezza dead Battery.

Luckily, no hydrogen leaked and the original battery didn't exploded. And my Bezza managed to start up, and  had to cancelled the Carput, where the runner still dunno where go pick up the battery. Called Carput CS and the Runner Tech to cancelled ordered.

So, I went around the neighbourhood to look for an Amaron Dealer Car Battery Shop.

First shop, the Cina uncle macam nak potong me, sell higher than Official Store / Carput, RM 340 for the same Amaron Go Battery.

So directly I go survey another Battery shop RM 290 - RM 20 Trade In. Only just saved RM 5. 

At the end, I think should have let Carput to replace me car battery. In case next time or under warranty period the battery became dead.


Car Batteries nowadays so weak, can't really last more than 2 years+ already? 

My stock battery is some Panasonic Lead-Acid Battery with Refillable Caps.
Only went to Perodua Service Center 3 months ago, the technicians checked the battery report says ok.

I go look back report in details mana pula cold start Voltage was 10V+ but Engine started it was 14V+....
Rated CCA 240A, Measured already 220A...

The Perodua SC didn't bother to inform my battery near dying stage...

Actually it works. I can tell u, there are many kiam siap Vellfire 2.5L users that use regular battery. Those cars have start-stop also. But the owners do disable them every single time immediately right after they start their engines.

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Good advice. Just want to ask who teach you to connect (-)neg to car body? Apek bawah pokok? Car paint these days already block the connection, also longer route to the battery. I wud suggest direct connection to the battery like in pix, ask the keta hidup to rev car engine first before you attempt dead battery start. Have been helping ppl a lot to jumps start car, even pregnant women who know how to isi minyak and drive saja..Pity nowadays many also dunno how to jumpstart a battery.
*Unker missed the days where you could put car in neutral and jumpstart car in 2nd gear. Maybe CTR or Megane?

Yeah, parents are okay, just abit drama from mother keep giving suggestions that I've proposed first, then shove it back to me, after getting her phone back calling relatives that does car insurance. 

Well I hope not, very non-ethical, shortening battery lifespan. But if stock from manufacturer, defects or electrochemistry not well made I can't blame la.

Nah... it works. Because original from factory also not running on AGM battery. They all use EFB ones like all typical non-hybrid cars with start-stop.
Regular cars with no start stop also can use EFB batteries. I have tried and lasted close to 4 years that has a bunch of audio upgrades before the battery worn out.
My boss had his Vellfire for 7 years since 2016 until he upgraded , never seen Xmas lights on the dashboard... Thats a Toyota.. Not BMW...

Well, I think newer cars less of an issue. 
Hopefully my dashboard+fog lamps running won't be sucking too much power from the battery and/or alternator.
Really stupid feature of Bezza of designing a dashboard so recessed can't even read the speedometer under sunlight without the backlight on.

I normally only leave that on, heating element for rear windshield also off.
Only normally need to drive additional Xiaomi Dashcam from 5V/2A USB port and a 12V to 5V/9V/12V PD Charger Type C charger only 

Thanks to those people i found 1 month old battery at my friend's scrap yard.

U can try Kingbolen BM550, quite cheap and accurate, less than rm50 can get, youtube got ppl test it against Bosch battery tester and it is almost as accurate as the Bosch.

Redneck like me I don't just charge it using a conventional battery charger, I zap those battery with DC inverter welder, after zapping u can see the CCA improve. That how my scrap yard's friend lorry don't have to buy battery. And of course not all battery can be zapped, if u don't know what you are doing, you can end up with acid bath.

I never bought battery for all the car in my house, my friend open scrap yard, so i just go there and take for free only... U will be surprised by how many battery is actually "misdiagnosed" or "scam" by mechanic.

may I know which mods that should be avoided/ think thouroughly?

a. changing the infotainment system to aftermarket one - for 360 feature
b. DVR

both should be ok right?

Some of it are sent in from walk in customer, that bangla worker also ask, eh battery baru 1 bulan sudah mau buang ka... that customer say, neh itu mechanic lah, sudah tukar lagi x boleh, lagi tukar lagi check baru tau alternator punya hal. Then every week will have this one guy come with a small van, he will unload on average at least 10 battery each time, and he can explicitly tell that bangla worker which battery still good working condition which is not, then the worker will separate out the working battery and when i test, that seller put his money where his mouth is. And this guy, how much money u give him, he don't care, he just take whatever u give him, he don't even care if he bring in a DIN110 but you pay him NS40 price, just as long as he walks out with money.

All i know is this is very good for the economy even though is dishonest or incompetent mechanic. And beneficial for people like me. And good for my scrap yard friend, pay lower than market value still got ppl willing to sell, then drill holes to the battery and brim it with water before selling to larger scrap, cause larger scrap they weight the battery instead of by unit and size. Then also beneficial to my other close friend, they need battery just let me know they get the battery for free (as long as they exchange their old one) and belanja me eat.

Ah when you say SC, last time my scrap collector friend go and pakat with the SC of the brand with tiger on it's logo. He offer them good price for the battery, with that this motivated the mechanic to entice and coax the customer into replacing their battery. Last i know they are so motivated until all the mechanic will come and queue up as soon as his lorry arrive just to sell him the battery. U see... like this good for the SC in terms of sales and those mechanic, with the xtra money they can go and spend it and treat their family to a nice meal. This is what i called help drive the growth of economy...  :thumbsup: 

But yeah the X50 really got prob... like 9/10 the battery is really bad.

Then you ask back the customer loh... If you as a battery manufacture do you want your battery to last like super super long? So long that people who pakai your battery don't have to change battery making your business turnover rate super low till gulung tikar... 

The scrap AGM in my turbo diesel has been a few months, every week i monitor the CCA and internal resistance and it never drop and increase. EFB i don't bother to take, they always arrived like super super dead, can't even power the battery tester that kind of dead. Normal RFB, for my own car only target those which were like super new and sold to scrap simply because of alternator failed and can't charge the battery. Like i just got a Amaron 65d26L 420CCA rated but tested 500CCA. Yes... i understand about the fact that SLI battery sulfation will occur when it is deep discharged. Expect maybe can use for 1 year? Those Century and Motolite NS70 and D23 tends to be good, if the CCA is low, i just have to zap it with DC welder can regain 100-150CCA, improving it very close to factory rated CCA. Those use on lorry so far already more than 6 months still going strong. So far the oldest battery i put on my diesel car is the Merc OE AGM which was approx 3 years + when it was send to scrap.