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      09-07-2012, 03:43 AM   #11
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A possible reason your battery is not being fully charged: I believe later BMWs have some kind of brake energy regeneration system, so the alternator only charges under braking. So it's not so much the distance you travel on your journey, but the amount of braking you do.

Might be wrong though...
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