"MM54" (mm54mk2)
10/31/2018 at 12:11 • Filed to: 4Runner
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"MM54" (mm54mk2)
10/31/2018 at 12:11 • Filed to: 4Runner | 0
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Tried to leave work
for lunch to find the 4Runner wouldn’t start; coworker gave me a jump and I came home. Checked with meter and it’s charging, so it looks like the “Power Start” battery (dated 2012) that came in the car has said no more. I was skeptical of it from brand/age
, but I’ve never seen a battery go from “starts fine” to “dead” in a day. I drove the car yesterday with zero
problems, this morning it was a little bit slow to start but fired up, then after 4 hours in the work parking lot it was dead.
I guess I’m going to NAPA after lunch. It needed a new bat
tery before winter anyway.
Hopefully I’ve not developed some weird parasitic drain.
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> MM54
10/31/2018 at 12:19 |
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but I’ve never seen a battery go from “starts fine” to “dead” in a day.
If it’s any consolation, I’ve had this happen on the Vibe and the Tercel. In both cases, it was fixed by just replacing the battery. Better for it to die now than in the dead of winter, right?
smobgirl
> MM54
10/31/2018 at 12:21 |
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My Fiat battery died pretty much instantly. It was the first time I’d seen that happen, too. But when I googled a bunch of people had it happen with the batteries they came with (I forgot the brand already).
HammerheadFistpunch
> MM54
10/31/2018 at 12:25 |
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but I’ve never seen a battery go from “starts fine” to “dead” in a day.
This has happened twice to me, once in the Subaru and once in the VW.
Its also happened twice to my neighbors recently who I helped diagnose the problem. Thats pretty much my experience with dead batteries. They just go. Which is why its important to replace based on age. Mine is coming due and it needs to be replaced soon even though it still gives good volts and starts every time.
Zaxbys
> MM54
10/31/2018 at 12:27 |
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Monday morning I realized I left my car lights on over the weekend (parked in the garage, and drove the truck) so I took the truck to work instead. It started fine after work, drove fine to the grocery store (15 miles, mostly doing 65 mph), sat 15 minutes, and all I got was a click when I came out. Started fine with a jump and again with a new battery, so I fairly certain that was the issue, but I still found it odd it couldn’t start a warm engine after starting a cold one.
WiscoProud
> MM54
10/31/2018 at 12:37 |
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I had a similar problem with the battery in my wife’s Forester. It got real cold last winter and while the car would start, it would take a second. Then, during a brutal cold snap, nothing. I assumed it was because her commute was a whopping 5 minutes which wouldn’t let the battery charge, so we left her car running for a while to get to temp and we still had troubles. Finally took it in and realized her OEM battery was only putting out 68 amps, which was about 10-15% of what it was supposed to. Up until now, that was enough for her, but sub-zero temps finally did it in.
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MM54
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/31/2018 at 12:41 |
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Usually around here it’ll get really cold and one morning you’ll find it needs replaced (but it still works in the warm for a while). This one must have been pretty bad, this is t
he
warmest day in a couple weeks.
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MM54
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
10/31/2018 at 12:41 |
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For sure. I’m used to “bad battery” manifesting itself on a cold morning, not in the middle of the warmest day in weeks though!
kgman
> MM54
10/31/2018 at 13:00 |
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Try cleaning and retightening the connections. The only time I’ve had a battery go from good to bad that fast it was a bad connection. Get a terminal brush and really clean the connections and there’s a good chance it will keep working
user314
> MM54
10/31/2018 at 13:30 |
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My mom had this happen to her ‘11 Santa Fe a couple weeks back. We’d gone out for lunch & groceries, and left one supermarket to head down to the Dollar store about a half mile away. Got back in the car, turned the key. Dome line came on, but the engine wouldn’t turn over. Called my uncle for a jump, and the two-year old Batteries+ whatever model would not take a charge. Got it towed to our local service station, and the battery was flat . Fortunately that’s all it was.
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> kgman
10/31/2018 at 17:30 |
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It’s a 6-year-old no-name battery that I planned to replace before winter anyways; the terminals look fine and are tight so I’m just replacing it.
(The first thing I did when it wouldn’t start was check the connections, have had that get me before)