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Re: Tried to start my 900T this morning Posted by Ari [Email] ![]() ![]() In Reply to: Tried to start my 900T this morning, Andrew K, Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:27:25 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Before you put the girl to bed, how much driving were you doing with it?
The purpose of the battery is to provide starting power, and maybe, just maybe, provide a little reserve power during a transient power drain while driving. Otherwise, it's dead weight. The alternator provides all the power to the car, and replenishes the battery with the energy it lost in starting the car. That takes a little time.
It sounds like the battery is 6 weeks old (1.5 months), and the car wasn't started for the past 3 weeks. Inf the first 3 weeks of life, how much did you drive the car? If you put in the battery, drove 10 miles home, let it sit for three weeks, and all you did three weeks ago was start it to move it into the garage, then the battery has been effectively sitting 6 weeks with nothing but a power drain (the start). And it didn't come from the store fully charged.
However, if you drove it a bunch right up until 3 weeks ago, ignore the previous statement.
You may very well have a bad battery. Defective batteries aren't unheard of. It could have a shorted or bad cell from the store, and it self-discharged. It's important to know that car batteries aren't designed to be run flat - fully discharging a car battery permanently reduces it's life and charge carrying capability. So your new batter is already compromised.
I assume that the old battery that the new one replaced lasted a while. That would imply that the problem lies in the new battery, not in the car.
If it is only 6 weeks, old, I'd take it back to the store and get it replaced. It should be a free swap, based on the youth of the battery. It may be defective, and at a minimum, the full discharge has damaged it.
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