Car decided it didn’t want to start today, first time it’s ever happened. Started fine in the morning as usual, drove 20 minutes to first destination, then after two hours started fine, drove again another 20 minutes to the shop. Once back in the car it wouldn’t start on the button, didn’t even turn over or make a click.

Local landy specialist who is literally over the road came over and jumped it for us, it took 4 goes to get it going.

Came back to it this afternoon and it fired up instantly. Took it out for around 40 min. Looking at the live values, it was saying the battery was 69% charged, after 40 minutes it’s only showing 70% ( I don’t know how reliable the IID data is for this), voltage is showing 14.0v while driving, with a battery current of 2.0 amps. Can anyone let me know if this seems normal? Had a battery supplier out this afternoon who’s tested the battery and says it’s in good condition. Is it looking likely to be the alternator?

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I'm no expert, but mine shows 14.4v on the move, dropping to 13.7v when the random 'charging fault' rears its ugly head! 2011MY 4.4TDV8 Autobiography Baltic Blue
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Should be 14v + upto 14.6v but if it drops when you run it with current draw, ie both heated screens on & blowers on and lights then after 20 seconds ish… If it does not recover to charge at high 13v on test I’d bin the Altenator sir…

I see between 14.4 and 14.7v in current weather in my MY11 4.4
In real cold i see up to 15v
When battery management ECU says to alternator to stop charging - then i see 13.7v

Sounds like you have an intermittent fault on a relay
The starter motors on these are known to fail….working intermittently until they completely give up

The fact that it would not even 'click' or 'whirr' suggests to me:

This is going to sound boring, silly and irrelevant but have you checked the 'soundness' of both battery terminals for cleanliness and tightness and also the starter motor connections (relay and main feed)

If all the dashboard lights go dim when trying to start then either the battery or connections would be where I start investigating. If they stay bright but no noises then look downstream from the battery?

I had a problem on my car after fitting a new battery and it was simply down to the negative lead not fully pushed down on the tapered terminal and possibly just not quite tight enough. I always tend to tighten clamps just enough as I had one snap years ago but the taper of the clamps is such that they only provide full area contact when fully pushed down.

If that is not your problem which statistically it won't be then charging at only 2 amps needs looking at as the car will be need to be drawing a whole lot more than that but depending on what the problem is the GAP tool can only report what data it is getting so I would treat the 2 amps with caution. Current: 2003 TD6 HSE
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