Tony7Bear
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Last May I purchased a 2018 plate C220d Sport Premium Plus model which has been great in all respects except one, the battery. For the first couple of months the ECO start/stop function worked as expected but gradually it worked less and less, this seemed to coincide with warnings from the MercedesMe app saying that the battery was critically low. As per the warning I would take the car for a drive for 30 minutes or so and all would be fine for a while.
While sitting in a queue of traffic yesterday I realised that the start/stop hadn't kicked in and it hasn't done so for many months. Even though I haven't driven that much since the lockdown started I do occasionally receive the battery low warning message if I go for a short drive or something, this has got me thinking that I should buy a battery charger in the hope of reconditioning the battery.
As I've never purchased a car battery charger before I'm not sure what I should be looking for in the way of features or capabilities, as such I'm looking for some guidance from you good people, what make/model would you recommend?
While sitting in a queue of traffic yesterday I realised that the start/stop hadn't kicked in and it hasn't done so for many months. Even though I haven't driven that much since the lockdown started I do occasionally receive the battery low warning message if I go for a short drive or something, this has got me thinking that I should buy a battery charger in the hope of reconditioning the battery.
As I've never purchased a car battery charger before I'm not sure what I should be looking for in the way of features or capabilities, as such I'm looking for some guidance from you good people, what make/model would you recommend?