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Thanks so much everyone! I’ll get a charger sorted and see if that helps. Really good to have an answer, or at least a most likely theory, for this problem. Much appreciated - have a good weekend!

Thanks for that - very helpful!

It sounds like we need to figure out a way to keep the battery charged, but it's tricky as we'd have to drive the car around specifically to charge the battery! The idea of a battery charger sounds god. Anyone have a recommendation? Are there chargers which can ...

OK, thank you.

I suppose my questions are:

- If it's not normal for a low battery to cause issues like power steering cutting out and ABS alerts turning on, what else could be causing this?

- Or if a low battery (caused by not driving the car quite enough) could still be the culprit, why isn't ...

Thanks. If you include both there and back, the car gets about 15 mins of driving per day, but it sounds like that’s not enough to charge the battery. This seems odd to me as our old Polo did the same and had no problems. Plus I would have thought many people are driving their cars for this sort of ...

Thanks, but as mentioned the battery was tested and we were told it was in good health, just a little low at 60% and it would be charged up soon enough by driving…

Hi everyone, any ideas what might be causing this problem?:

Occasionally, the ABS brake alert beeps and lights up on the dash and the power steering light too. Sometimes the power steering actually cuts out at the same time. Turning the ignition off and on again resets everything to normal. The car ...