Got Battery ?
 

Battery died this weekend. I may have lerft some interior lights on, but I am not admitting it. Anyway, I went to the usual auto stores on the weekend and not surprisingly they did not have a battery that would work.

I figured that I would have no problem getting one at the dealer since the model has been out over a year now. Started calling dealers on Monday morning. First three had none in stock. A little panic started to set in. Called a fourth dealer and they had 2 available. It was covered under warranty, but the dealer required me to have the car towed which was a little bit of a pain.

Moral of the story..... don't get old and forgetful or buy an extra battery if you can find one.

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Would the battery not take a charge? Did you try jump starting the car. One total discharge should not kill a battery!:omg:

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Nobody could get it to jump and the guys at the auto store said that their equipment could not charge it (don't ask me why). At that point I figured I might as well just waste a few hours and get a free battery.

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That is strange!!! Must be very poor quality battery's. It probably was never used to start the car? Good thing they have a good warranty:P How is the weather down there at this time? I'm heading down with the Mtr. Home for a month of sun!, I hope.:)

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This past week had a couple days of rain then a few days in the 70s. Looks like rain will be back for the weekend. If you are here for a month you should get some good weather - we've probably already gotten our quota of rain for the year :shade: .

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I don't see why you couldn't get it to jump. That's bad news! My dad's car battery died this weekend, and I was able to use my HCH to jump his car- if it works one way, I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work the other way around. Can anyone? Anyway- Very odd.

Best of luck with the new battery! Sounds like it was a pain, but probably not a major defect in the car that the rest of us need to fret about much.

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always trickle charge (2 amp charge over night) the battery after something like that happens. that battery should still be good.

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I have 2 , 03 HCH's. One personal and one government issued. The battery in my work HCH died at about 10,000 miles and did take a jump start, but I replaced the battery anyway.

My personal HCH has had the original battery in it since day one and just turned 120,000 miles.

OH GREAT! Now I just jinxed myself :(