Just putting this here in the hope that it might help someone else out in the future.
My 2010 Altea kept suffering from a Start stop fault randomly at first and then became more and more common.
The car use to display ‘Start Stop error’ on the dash, the engine revs use to come up to 1100 RPM, all the fans would come on and the worst part would the the power steering would drop out when being turned.
plugging VCDS in, the only error that would be displayed was
01598 - Drive battery voltage
011 - open circuit intermittent
After hours of forum searching I could see people having similar problems, with lots of suggestions, but no one had an actual answer.
So after discovering that the car had a Voltage stabiliser module, I bought one from eBay : Part number 1KO 919 041 price was £8 delivered, used commonly across the VAG range.
Swapped the unit out which can be found just behind the glove box unit on the right.
so far everything appears to be working again perfectly as it should.
Hope this helps out anyone else having a similar issue.
My 2010 Altea kept suffering from a Start stop fault randomly at first and then became more and more common.
The car use to display ‘Start Stop error’ on the dash, the engine revs use to come up to 1100 RPM, all the fans would come on and the worst part would the the power steering would drop out when being turned.
plugging VCDS in, the only error that would be displayed was
01598 - Drive battery voltage
011 - open circuit intermittent
After hours of forum searching I could see people having similar problems, with lots of suggestions, but no one had an actual answer.
So after discovering that the car had a Voltage stabiliser module, I bought one from eBay : Part number 1KO 919 041 price was £8 delivered, used commonly across the VAG range.
Swapped the unit out which can be found just behind the glove box unit on the right.
so far everything appears to be working again perfectly as it should.
Hope this helps out anyone else having a similar issue.
