Oh no! Had to be a Mopar battery, no other brand can have a problem! LOLMy cousin just got his brand new Silverado LT 2 weeks ago and it left him stranded after work on Friday.
Dead battery. Wouldn't even take a charge.
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Oh no! Had to be a Mopar battery, no other brand can have a problem! LOLMy cousin just got his brand new Silverado LT 2 weeks ago and it left him stranded after work on Friday.
Dead battery. Wouldn't even take a charge.
LOL, If you mostly stay close to home you may be ok chancing it. Nothing like being out in the middle of nowhere and your vehicle that started the last time won't start this time. My experience has been not good with a battery in the 5 year old range. Of course a battery of any age can be defective, I just quit taking the chance instead of kicking myself in the rear when it won't start. I replace at 5 years regardless. If the new one fails well at least I tried!You all got me thinking, my battery is 5 years old. So far, not an sign of trouble.
Well I'm trying to figure out my 2021 1500 Ram just working t start after 3 days of use. Dealer has had more than me. Said they cannot duplicate the problem. 2nd truck .Had to replace my battery today. Well, I’m hoping it was a battery and I’m hoping that’s all it was but when I went to start my truck this afternoon when I got back to the yard, the remote start wouldn’t work. Wasn’t sure why so I opened the door to start it manually and the flippin’ battery was dead, wouldn’t crank. Had about enough juice to power everything but no crank.
Checked the battery cables and sure enough, they were tight; should be tight because it’s the factory battery and Ive never taken the cables off. Had my buddy come over with his pickup to give me a jump and sure enough, it was dead because it took a little over 5 minutes to charge it enough to where it would even crank but even after it got to that point, it wouldn’t start, it would just crank, and crank. I guess the voltage has to be high enough in order for the fuel pump or whatever to kick on because after about another 3, 4 minutes of jumping, it finally fired up.
Drove it down to Oreileys, they put their battery checker on it but they couldn’t check it because the battery was hardly charged and sure enough when I went to start it back up, it wouldn’t crank. They had to get their portable jump starter out to start the truck. They said they could check the battery once it was charged so I drove it home, took the battery out and went back so they could charge it. Said it would take about an hour to charge it and then they said they could properly test it to see if it really was bad.
Well, they hooked up the charger and after a few seconds of the charger running it’s thing, it immediately said the battery was bad so I figured at that point, I might as well just replace the damn thing. 200 bucks for a new battery later, put it in and she cranked right up.
I’m just curious though, is it possible my battery just decided to take a crap like that outta the blue? I don’t think anything was left on because I found out right away that if you leave any lights on, including the headlights, it will shut them off as a protection.
This truck will be four years old this Christmas and I haven’t had a single problem out of the battery and yes, my truck does sit a lot, especially when I’m at work. It’s not out of the ordinary for my truck to sit at the yard all week and then I drive it home on the weekends. As I said, it’s been subject to this a lot since I bought it brand new and nothing….except for today and it was dead.
Usually if something drains a battery, you might get by with jumping it once but in my experience, if you have to jump one several times, you might as well just replace it at that point as it’s usually shot but not this time. This is the first time it went dead and that was all she wrote. Sorry for the long post but any ideas? I do have an amp powering my rear subs but it shuts off when there’s no audio signal coming from the radio so I find it hard to believe it’s that. Other than that, I don’t leave phone chargers plugged it so I have no idea where the parasitic draw would have come from if there was any. I’m stumped unless this battery just decided it didn’t want to hold a charge anymore.
My company GM's battery went south when the truck was 3 months old,and what a fight it was to get GM to warrenty it. It'd pass a battery test using their high dollar digital set-up,but it wouldn't pass a test using my old toaster style battery testor.I finally ended up taking my old toaster tester over,and damn near had to ram it down the service writers ass,before he'd finally admit the battery had issues,even though the tech agreed with me,lolOh no! Had to be a Mopar battery, no other brand can have a problem! LOL
That would've been one hell of a sight!.......I finally ended up taking my old toaster tester over,and damn near had to ram it down the service writers ass,before he'd finally admit the battery had issues,even though the tech agreed with me,lol.....
There are only 3 battery manufacturers in the USA. NONE of the vehicle manufacturers make their own batteries. To those referring to the wide array of battery service time being a "crapshoot", I take issue.Dodge uses the cheapest crap possible when building trucks to maximize profit. You're lucky it lasted that long.
"You can't fix stupid"My company GM's battery went south when the truck was 3 months old,and what a fight it was to get GM to warrenty it. It'd pass a battery test using their high dollar digital set-up,but it wouldn't pass a test using my old toaster style battery testor.I finally ended up taking my old toaster tester over,and damn near had to ram it down the service writers ass,before he'd finally admit the battery had issues,even though the tech agreed with me,lol
Had a similar incident with a battery about 1 year old. Let a truck sit over the weekend and the truck wouldn't start on Monday, assumed something was left on so I charged it , the vehicle would start all week and sit over the weekend again and wouldn't start on Monday. Repeat, started fine all week, weekend come disconnected battery over weekend still wouldn't start on Monday. Replaced the battery and put other battery on charger and when my battery supplier came by he put his $800 battery tester on it and battery "checked good". Put my old $30 toaster oven styled battery tester on it and it disagreed. Went 2 more weeks and the truck never failed to start again. Took an act of God to convince them the battery was bad or they got tired of me pushing the issue and they replaced the battery. High dollar tech isn't always the gospel! LOLMy company GM's battery went south when the truck was 3 months old,and what a fight it was to get GM to warrenty it. It'd pass a battery test using their high dollar digital set-up,but it wouldn't pass a test using my old toaster style battery testor.I finally ended up taking my old toaster tester over,and damn near had to ram it down the service writers ass,before he'd finally admit the battery had issues,even though the tech agreed with me,lol
I have more respect for the old style toaster testers,then i do for the high dollar digital testers.I think the new style testers were designed so that dealers/battery suppliers etc. could blull**** their way out of having to replace a battery under warrenty,lolHad a similar incident with a battery about 1 year old. Let a truck sit over the weekend and the truck wouldn't start on Monday, assumed something was left on so I charged it , the vehicle would start all week and sit over the weekend again and wouldn't start on Monday. Repeat, started fine all week, weekend come disconnected battery over weekend still wouldn't start on Monday. Replaced the battery and put other battery on charger and when my battery supplier came by he put his $800 battery tester on it and battery "checked good". Put my old $30 toaster oven styled battery tester on it and it disagreed. Went 2 more weeks and the truck never failed to start again. Took an act of God to convince them the battery was bad or they got tired of me pushing the issue and they replaced the battery. High dollar tech isn't always the gospel! LOL
Safety was a major motivator for getting away from "toaster" style battery testers. Open heat elements can and WILL ignite the extremely explosive hydrogen gas emitted by a heavily circuit loaded lead/acid battery. Ask me, I've had 2 explode on me (decades ago). Except for the safety equipment I used, I'd be blind today. And, you've never seen anyone shed their sulfuric acid soaked uniform as he (me) hauled ass to the bathroom to get water to neutralize the burns on me from said acid. (Fortunately, our uniforms were kept in this bathroom, so a clean one was at hand.)Had a similar incident with a battery about 1 year old. Let a truck sit over the weekend and the truck wouldn't start on Monday, assumed something was left on so I charged it , the vehicle would start all week and sit over the weekend again and wouldn't start on Monday. Repeat, started fine all week, weekend come disconnected battery over weekend still wouldn't start on Monday. Replaced the battery and put other battery on charger and when my battery supplier came by he put his $800 battery tester on it and battery "checked good". Put my old $30 toaster oven styled battery tester on it and it disagreed. Went 2 more weeks and the truck never failed to start again. Took an act of God to convince them the battery was bad or they got tired of me pushing the issue and they replaced the battery. High dollar tech isn't always the gospel! LOL
WHICH is why I still have these beauties around just in case, LOL. Not help much with RAM, does good for 2 Cylinder Kohler Tractor Mower though.Safety was a major motivator for getting away from "toaster" style battery testers. Open heat elements can and WILL ignite the extremely explosive hydrogen gas emitted by a heavily circuit loaded lead/acid battery. Ask me, I've had 2 explode on me (decades ago). Except for the safety equipment I used, I'd be blind today. And, you've never seen anyone shed their sulfuric acid soaked uniform as he (me) hauled ass to the bathroom to get water to neutralize the burns on me from said acid. (Fortunately, our uniforms were kept in this bathroom, so a clean one was at hand.)
Test equipment isn't developed to give anyone an "out" regarding warranty, although, I feel your pain. That guy may lack common "horse" sense, who knows? As far as your described woes with your repeated charging and the battery going dead repeatedly, it was possibly sulphated due to deep cycle discharge. Sometimes, folks in the business are mesmerized by "tech" gadgets. That's why, in spite of my multi thousands of dollars in high tech diagnostic equipment, there are times that a 10 dollar vacuum gauge will tell you all you need to know about a root cause issue on a poor running engine.