High battery drain

[Nanniepoo]

Originally Posted by noelskii

I get this high drain warning once in a blue....

...but lately, with the car off and I leave my doors/ hatch open for a few minutes... It kills the battery. Car doesn't start and I have to give it a quick jump. Does this mean my battery is toast?

I would say yes, although we had to replace the battery within a year of getting the car so we didn't really get to see the full symptom set of it declining.

Side note, and way off topic, but is there an easy way to disable the motorized hatch? We were camping and I overloaded the cooler so we just left it in the car......lots of opening and closing of the hatch and after 3 days of that, we got a high battery drain warning when we went to leave and I had to reset the clock. It would be nice if we could just disable it if we're in a similar situation again.

[noelskii]

Originally Posted by Nanniepoo

I would say yes, although we had to replace the battery within a year of getting the car so we didn't really get to see the full symptom set of it declining.

Side note, and way off topic, but is there an easy way to disable the motorized hatch? We were camping and I overloaded the cooler so we just left it in the car......lots of opening and closing of the hatch and after 3 days of that, we got a high battery drain warning when we went to leave and I had to reset the clock. It would be nice if we could just disable it if we're in a similar situation again.

I think that motorized hatch uses a lot of energy. I did that just a few times with the car off and it totally killed my battery...