{"id":3006,"date":"2017-01-15T13:40:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T21:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:48:28","slug":"audi-a8l-doesnt-start-in-cold-weather-charged-battery-and-starts-right-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/audi-a8l-doesnt-start-in-cold-weather-charged-battery-and-starts-right-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Audi A8L Doesn&#8217;t Start in Cold Weather &#8211; Charged Battery and Starts Right Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Our 2006 Audi A8L sat for 2 weeks in 30-40 F, the engine cranked slowly and never started, the battery measured 11.8V. We charged the battery with 8A and within 2 hours, the battery went up to 12.9V and it started right away, great car.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Battery Voltage\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_battery_voltage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3007\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_battery_voltage-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"Battery Voltage\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_battery_voltage-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_battery_voltage-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_battery_voltage.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"5nVRvS_S2-4\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our 2006 Audi A8L sat for 2 weeks in 30-40 F, the engine cranked slowly and never started, the battery measured 11.8V. We charged the battery with 8A and within 2 hours, the battery went up to 12.9V and it started right away, great car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[641,416,640,639],"class_list":["post-3006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a8-d3","tag-2006-a8l","tag-a8l-d3","tag-charge-battery","tag-doesnt-start-in-cold-weather"],"views":882,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5698,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/5698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}