Hi All

Had issue with the fatty this morning. Car wouldn't start. Various faults on dashboard. Park brake, check reversing lights etc. Turned key and nothing. Didn't even attempt to turn over.

Looked like electrical issue to me rather than any specific fault. So tester on battery, engine off, got reading of 10.9v. So put battery on my ctek charger for couple of hours.

Removed charger and was able to starter the car as normal. No errors. Left engine running. No load. Put tester on again and got 14.3v then put load on, lights, A/V, heated seats etc and got reading of 14v.

Hooked up IID tool and no errors showing for charging system or battery. Cleared the errors from this morning and no faults showing now. But IID tool showing battery voltage is 13.5v no load and 13.2v with load.

I'm not getting any noises or smells like ive seen in other threads. Battery was brand new varta one few months ago.

Does this point towards alternator on way out? Or something else?

Next plan was to fully charge the battery and then leave overnight. Just to see if battery is holding decent charge.

TIA
Alistair. Current Family:
2012 FFRR 4.4 TDV8 Westminster
2013 Jaguar XFs 3.0d Sportbrake
2008 FFRR 3.6 TDV8 VSE (Gone)
2008 Ford Mondeo mk4 2.2tdci (Gone)
2006 S Class 320 CDI (Gone)
1998 P38a 4.6 VSE Oxford Blue 98k (Gone)
Vx Vectra C Estate 1.9cdti 150 (with a few twists) (Gone)

Other LR's in Family (2019 4.4 TDV8 AB)