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What would cause the battery to uncharge after 5 minutes on a VW Beetle?
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∙ 14y ago
The battery is probably bad. As they get old they lose the power to recharge all the way. If you had a full charge you could still drive quite a while (with no head lights on) even with the alternator/generator dead, unless the gen/alt is shorting out which is rare.
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