Advance swore up and down the battery was fine and refused to honor the
warranty. Took it to auto zone and just told them to pull it out and give
me a new one. Drove home fine. Went to get back in the car I open the
door
and bam alarm goes off. Apparently now that I have a new fully charged
battery my alarm now has enough power to just go off on it's own non stop
and wake the neighbors. I liked it better when it was silently sucking my
battery dry. I just disconnected the battery to stop it, I'm going to
have
to have it towed to the dealer now as I can't even drive it, it wasn't a
bad
battery :(
"Bob" <bobsjunkmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>
> "Owl" <NOSPAMYO@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:dRe4k.384$F97.190@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > That red light has never been on before and the car ran. Now that
it's
on
> > the car won't start and it's draining my battery, I do not want it
there,
> > heh. I read online others have had this happen too so I know I'm not
> > crazy.
> > Anyway, I've been told it's in "program mode" which is why it won't
allow
> > me
> > to start the car and why it's draing my battery, it's up and waiting
for
> > commands I can't give it. I'm just getting the damn thing disabled as
I
> > don't even use it.
> >
>
> Think bad battery. Bad cell will result in both the inability to start
the
> car, and the supposed "instant" recharge. All the battery charger is
doing
> is measuring voltage, not putting a load on the battery. Also, the fact
that
> your charger says 96% after sitting off charge for a while does not
indicate
> much of anything. Think this through... Your meter in your charger says
the
> battery is fully charged. That probably means that it doesn't draw much
> current from the charger, and it sees in the neighborhood of 14 volts at
the
> terminal while it is trying to charge. Supposed fully charged battery,
but
> it won't crank the car. You put a source of current with some oomph
behind
> it - the charger in jump start mode - across the battery, and the car
> starts. Battery can't make enough current to start the car.
>
> There is NO WAY that the little LED, or the sup****t electronics for the
> alarm will kill the battery in 10 Minutes. Get it to an Advance or Auto
> Zone, and let them load test the battery. It will probably fail
miserably.
> The light is likely on because you've gone real low in bus voltage in
the
> car when you've tried starting it, and the alarm module is confused. It
> might fix itself when you completely disconnect the battery in the
process
> of replacing the defective one. If it's only six months old, the new one
> will probably be free.
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