Owner left stranded by new cars’ flat batteries

▪ CASE STUDY Short commute blamed as Sarah’s Astra breaks down, and loan car suffers identical fate

Julie Sinclair

BATTERIES go flat from time to time, especially on older cars, but reader Sarah Walker got in touch after she was unable to reject her brand new Vauxhall Astra after this happened on a number of occasions. Sarah, from Southam, Warks, told us that she was forced to call out the AA three times in two months when her 17-plate Astra SRi left her stranded by the roadside. “I bought a brand new car with zero miles on the clock, but after just 330 miles I had to call out the AA because the battery was flat,” Sarah told us. She booked the car in for an inspection at dealer Eden Vauxhall Banbury, Oxon, where staff said the drainage could have been caused by a loose battery connector. “A few…

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