Samwise579
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Hi all,
We have a 2018 T6 startline, converted to a camper.
On Tuesday, 22nd, my partner drove it to pick up a turkey and returned no issues, she said it started fine and nothing seemed off. Yesterday, 26th, we went to use it to take the dog for a walk and it was completely dead. The key buttons did nothing, it had unlocked itself and there was no power anywhere. The voltmeter in the back, part or the camper setup, was reading 4v on the vehicle battery.
I charged it overnight on the EHU and checked on it this morning, around 11am, and it was reading ~13 v and seemed stable so I unplugged it from EHU and locked it.
I went to try and start it at around 4:30pm and it was dead again, no central locking, and again unlocked.
I attached a smart victron charger this time to see what it was saying and left it for about an hour. It said it had successfully reached full charge with 0.7 Ah going in. I turned the charger off and turned the ignition key and the dash came on and the radio started up, after about 10 seconds I tried the starter and everything died.
At this point I brought my partner's car over to it to try to jump it. With her car running the voltmeter in the back was reading 14.8 V, and I confirmed this with a multimeter at the battery. However now there's absolutely nothing working in the van, even with the other car attached and running. No lights, no dash, no central locking.
I've checked the fuses in fuse box B and they're fine. I've checked the ones I can easily reach in box C. I'll check box A in the morning.
Does anyone have any thoughts as to what could be happening? Starting first time on Tuesday and then being completely dead by Sunday is odd. As is the inability of the charger to actually put any power into the battery. But now also everything being dead despite being attached to a running alternator?!
Any help appreciated,
Sam
We have a 2018 T6 startline, converted to a camper.
On Tuesday, 22nd, my partner drove it to pick up a turkey and returned no issues, she said it started fine and nothing seemed off. Yesterday, 26th, we went to use it to take the dog for a walk and it was completely dead. The key buttons did nothing, it had unlocked itself and there was no power anywhere. The voltmeter in the back, part or the camper setup, was reading 4v on the vehicle battery.
I charged it overnight on the EHU and checked on it this morning, around 11am, and it was reading ~13 v and seemed stable so I unplugged it from EHU and locked it.
I went to try and start it at around 4:30pm and it was dead again, no central locking, and again unlocked.
I attached a smart victron charger this time to see what it was saying and left it for about an hour. It said it had successfully reached full charge with 0.7 Ah going in. I turned the charger off and turned the ignition key and the dash came on and the radio started up, after about 10 seconds I tried the starter and everything died.
At this point I brought my partner's car over to it to try to jump it. With her car running the voltmeter in the back was reading 14.8 V, and I confirmed this with a multimeter at the battery. However now there's absolutely nothing working in the van, even with the other car attached and running. No lights, no dash, no central locking.
I've checked the fuses in fuse box B and they're fine. I've checked the ones I can easily reach in box C. I'll check box A in the morning.
Does anyone have any thoughts as to what could be happening? Starting first time on Tuesday and then being completely dead by Sunday is odd. As is the inability of the charger to actually put any power into the battery. But now also everything being dead despite being attached to a running alternator?!
Any help appreciated,
Sam
