If you’re a gadget man like me, I reckon it’s an essential bit of kit! How would you manage without one, once you’re made aware of it? I’m getting a caravan next year (not towing it with the 5) and think it might be good for connecting to leisure battery?
It will add something like another 1mA to your car’s dark current, small compared with the existing ~35mA.
Its Bluetooth might confuse a tea-leaf trying to hack into your car’s system to drive it away.
Or your car system might be able to pick it up and see it, but who knows until it’s tried?
Fortunately my car is too primitive, so I’ll not be tempted.
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But I might be tempted by this neat display solution that plugs into the OBDII socket. Except no current consumption is shown.
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Or maybe not after seeing a 1* review from a German user of something similar on his CX5 where it stopped his car.
Got ine fitted to my bmw c650gt good thing
tells u cranking amps etc and when out a run gives u a graph of what the charging systems been doing when riding bit over priced imho but im happy with it
I agree, it’s pretty well priced if it does what it says. If the car isn’t used so much over winter it could save a flat battery… then it’s paid for itself.
I’ve got the CTEK version arriving tomorrow, works identically but it’s twice the price of course!
Thanks ! Forgot to add that I think the Bluetooth range has been kept deliberately quite low by CTEK (3-4 MTRS ?) , which many reviewers say isn’t enough. But that presumably means it’s own power draw is also less. I’d rather have it like that, than a huge range which flattens your battery, kind of defeats the object of the device.