Question fellas???
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Question fellas??? I let my car sit for a week(8 days),w/o starting it is it normal for the battery to be drained completly???
Battery was an optima red top,but upgraded to the yellow top...mind you the battery was 6 months old,any ideas,is it normal???
Battery was an optima red top,but upgraded to the yellow top...mind you the battery was 6 months old,any ideas,is it normal???
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first off, changing from a red top to a yellow top is not an 'upgrade'. The YT is designed for low continuous load, the RT is for quick/high load applications (like starting a car). Second, get a meter on it and see if there what kind of load is on it when the car is off. It could be that your YT (remember, not designed to be good at starting a car, but more like a trolling motor on a boat), gets just weak enough over a week of slow drain to not have the oomph to spin the starter motor.
Also check your cables that there not lose mine was and the alternator didn't charge the battery I cleaned the connections and used battery grease and tighten everything up.
all Ok!!
all Ok!!
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My red top did the same thing a while back, same situation battery was only 6-8 months old and car was not started for 7 days but I left my radar detecter on and my I-pod plugged in and charging so I figured that was the cause...
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Off topic what part of modesto you from???
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Well I reading on another forum that there is a tsb don't remember the number but it was for 06 and 07.that the on star had to be reprogramned...
Ill see if I can find it...
Ill see if I can find it...
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No radar and no ipod...
Off topic what part of modesto you from???[/QUOTE]
I'm near coffee and orangeburg by Downy high, you in empire? Me and my friends have weekly car meets @ starbucks on briggs and Mchenry, you ever roll out there?
Off topic what part of modesto you from???[/QUOTE]
I'm near coffee and orangeburg by Downy high, you in empire? Me and my friends have weekly car meets @ starbucks on briggs and Mchenry, you ever roll out there?
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I'm near coffee and orangeburg by Downy high, you in empire? Me and my friends have weekly car meets @ starbucks on briggs and Mchenry, you ever roll out there?[/QUOTE]
Na,don't live in modesto any more.lived there for 2yrs,then moved back to so cal...use to stay on the west side,paradise and peggy lane...
Na,don't live in modesto any more.lived there for 2yrs,then moved back to so cal...use to stay on the west side,paradise and peggy lane...