Mercedes R230 Electric consumer offline message. How to avoid ruining your consumer battery.

Most people who have owned a Mercedes’ R230 500SL or SL 55, will have encountered the “low consumer battery” warning. This video show how is how easy it is to ruin the consumer battery in this car, and why these batteries often only last a year or two. Our recently purchased classic Fiat 238 van came with three hefty AGM leisure batteries. Together with the solar panel on the roof, charge controller and 2000W inverter this set up would have cost the previous owner around £2000. The system was constantly beeping indicating low battery charge which was surprising, as these batteries were brand-new and never actually used since installation. This video shows just how to avoid ruining your car and leisure batteries.