| Sudden battery failure [message #140865] |
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RF_Burns
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Registered: June 2008
Location: S. Ontario, Canada
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On Tuesday Paula took the car to a meeting about 45 miles away. She then drove a few blocks and stopped at a store for about 15 minutes. When she went to start the car the battery was dead, not enough even to run the radio (it was clicking and making "weird" noises).
Told her to call CAA. The guy gave her the battery test printout and told her just go straight home, don't turn off the engine. He was considerate enough to see it was a fairly new premium battery and didn't try to sell her a new one on the spot.
Not too unusual you say.. but in 2005 I bought 2 new pickups and this car all on the same day. In 2009, all the batteries failed in the same way within a 3 month period... no warning just suddenly dead.
This battery that failed was a replacement for the original that failed the same way.
So that's the 4th battery in a row that has just suddenly failed without warning.
Is this just my bad luck or have others had similar failures?
Its almost like an internal connection fails. On the charger it only takes about an 1 Amp.
Anyway it was an Exide battery and Canadian Tire replaced it n/c. The others were Delcos.
My experience is that todays batteries seem to be prone to sudden failure.
Bruce Hislop
ON Canada
77PB, 455 Dick P. rebuilt, DynamicEFI EBL EFI & ESC.
1 ton front end
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=29001
My Staff says I never listen to them, or something like that
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