Where did you get your sun strip bud? Did you cut the T6F logo out yourself?
Given all the talk of DPF woes on this forum, I got myself a Carista. They are on offer at the moment.
Ooooo its a bit fancy. Loads of things to look at and I've got a clean bill of health.
(also got a new door lock but we don't talk about that - the first item I've bought that I didn't want to).
Ooooo its a bit fancy. Loads of things to look at and I've got a clean bill of health.
(also got a new door lock but we don't talk about that - the first item I've bought that I didn't want to).
The new battery arrived yesterday and I fitted it this morning. It was a bit tight to get in place, mainly due to it's extra width and the fact that it couldn't just be lifted up and lowered straight down but that wasn't a major problem once I had disconnected all the cable and moved everything out of the way. I then plugged my Carista dongle in to tell the van that it now had a larger battery but can't help thinking that I shouldn't have bothered. Carista asks for the Ah, make and serial number of the new battery so I put 80 Ah but it wouldn't recognise 'Varta' as the make or the actual serial number so I just typed 'AGM' for the make and left the serial number at '11111111111' which it seemed happy with. I had to 'relearn' the windows and redo the set up for the Kenwood stereo but other than that there didn't seem to be problems. Surely, it can't be that easy?
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Isn't the code VAO same as a Bosch-un?
VA0 or sometimes VAO for Varta. You need to change the serial number to something different from the previous one, so the system recognises there is a new battery and starts to learn it. 1111111112 will do.
You'll need to change it to an agm battery as you previously had an efb. For the serial number, I just use the fitted date. 16122025555
@Drive Wayne @drinfinity @Dundee_Kev. Thanks for the input guys - I'll change the name and serial number as suggested in the morning. That said, I don't recall Carista giving the option of choosing between EFB, AGM or anything else as suggested by Kev. All I remember seeing was Ah, name and serial number but I might well have missed it and I'll look again when I revisit tomorrow. I'll report back.
I don't use carista. But I know on the tablet at my work if I program a battery it only allows serial and capacity changes. If I go into I think module 61 for battery regulation, then the option is there for battery types
Got a standard sunstrip mate from a vinyl guy then stenciled the sticker out yeah
@Drive Wayne @drinfinity @Dundee_Kev. I went back to Carista and repeated 080 (ie. 80Ah), changed make to 'VAO', serial number to '1612202500' and saved it all again. I also confirmed that there was no way (in Carista at least) to differentiate between EFB or AGM so just left it at that and on the basis that others on here have said that the van eventually teaches itself about the new battery i'm not going to worry about it any more. Again, thanks all for the advice.
Im under the impression that efb voltage is slightly less than agm, hence why it needs to be updated.
OK, just had a quick Google and caristas website has a YouTube video
and it shows you the battery type being changed
Bought the upgraded Carista Evo on a deal, extra 15% off with WELCOME15 thru Caristas site, and £7.49 on the VAG DPF app too.
Pleasing I can leave the new Carista plumbed in without draining the SB.
Pleasing I can leave the new Carista plumbed in without draining the SB.
That’s a proper strange looking Transporter, fair play.
We have loads of them running about up here, think maybe they were built for the Scottish market....
Anyway, I'd have thought the fact it's a VAG vehicle the menus would be the same. I know they are on other makes of diagnostic software
My Carista app definitely does NOT show ‘Battery Technology’- just Ah, make and serial number. Could anybody else on here please plug their dongle in and have a look (@Drive Wayne @Dellmassive ?). I’ve actually got an evo version on the way to me but would be very surprised if that was any different. Maybe it’s a Skoda thing (I think it’s a Skoda in the video anyway). I’ll plug into my Q5 later and have a look as well.
Send Carista an email stating the problem .I had the same issue recently ,changed the battery on my mini and when i plugged carista in it didnt show all the setting for a battery change ! so sent them an email which they replied to straight away asking me to send them data via the app which was easy to do,a couple of weeks later had another reply saying they had modified the latest software with a link to check it worked before it was released in the latest version update !
customer services there are very helpful and seem to want everything to work as it should.
My Evo definitely doesn’t show battery tech.
