12v battery dead

[odins_beer'd]

I went out to mine after not using it or touching it for a day and half and it was too weak to even try to crank. Mind you I've left it for two weeks at a time and never had an issue. I think the cold plays a larger factor than people realize.

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[quadna71]

Resolved. Had AAA come out and give me a boost this morning, drove around for an hour, now on trickle charger.
My fault. Lesson learned.

Do you leave the key in vehicle when it's parked in your garage? I heard that having the key in proximity can cause it to keep communicating and create a small draw.

 

[Nodak]

i tend to lock mine in the garage, the app gets annoying every few hours sending a notification that the doors are open.

irritates the wife to no end and she nags me with txts to lock it.

 

[milsuper]

Has anyone tried "Charge N Start" sold by Battery Tender (by Deltran)? Any thoughts on Charge N Start vs. NOCO?

 

[JasonNewYork]

Did your dealership add a gps tracker? Commonly installed on your ODB-II connector using a piggyback cable. It would look seamless until you pull the kick panel down.

My dealer installed LoJack for "free". It looked just like that. It was part of the deal that saved me $1,000. I assumed they got a kickback from the company. I removed it a few days later. Been sitting on a self since. I knew about it and it's on my sales receipt - no surprises.

 

[L-2]

POST 34,
I'd not previously of the "Charge N Start" series and watched a Youtube video on the 4120 version. It looks to be a good product. Some things I noticed:

-I'd not previously heard of lithium-ion car batteries before but the Charge N Start apparently has a setting for them as video had a guy with such a battery on a BMW.


-The cables used for jumping a battery seemed unable to spread very far if needed, maybe ~8" at most. This may be of concern should a vehicle's positive and negative/ground terminal/location be wider or further apart than that.

I do have two older Battery Tender brand smart-trickle chargers which I've been using for ~10 years, maybe more so I'm good with the brand. I just don't have personal experience with the Charge N Start models.

 

[L-2]

Now what I'm so far unable to do is how to remove the relay/fuse cover(s) under the hood to get to the positive location to attach a jumper cable. The negative is a silver-finished bracket slightly forward and to the center of the fuse box. I don't know what that bracket is called or what the bracket is routing (wires or hoses or whatever).

Edit: I had to use a screwdriver to depress 4 latches on each relay/fuse cover. The manual made no mention of needing a tool to "depress" each latch. Only the right/passenger-side cover needs to be open should a jump start ever be necessary, apparently. I can only recommend for anybody to research and practice what's involved. I did this on a sunny 70ºF day. I'd be really frustrated if it was at night in freezing weather.

I opened the left/driver side relay/fuse cover just to look and see what's involved. I barely looked inside and don't even remember what was in there.

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