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Old 09-19-2015, 08:08 PM
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The X is killing batteries Left and Right

Does anybody every recall a thread of familar with what may be going on.
Alt is putting out correct amps and volt...

Over the course of 3 months, with downtime during each incident, I have put in 2 brand new batteries only to have them go toast. The 1st time was after picking it up from the body shop *got keyed*, and noticed the presets were gone. The battery was not up to par since picking it up, so I suspect the shop may have cooked the battery out while charging....

Long story short. The new one went bad due to some weird issue *X shutdown on me*. Looks as if the battery just went flat during driving....and running the battery down, it either took a short, etc , but the battery was toast.

Couple week later. Same deal. Came back to a weak battery. Got a boost....with the same symptom, X just died, and the battery is toast....I suspect a short cell ??

These batteries are not cheap. HIGH END AGM.
I dunno. I may just go back to wet cell until I figure out what is the bug.

My indy suspects it's something else , and what is causing the battery issue is a secondary issue downstream from whatever the real issue is...

Last edited by jsoto; 09-20-2015 at 09:36 AM.
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