This is embarrassing but
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Melting Slicks
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From: Brentwood TN
This is embarrassing but
I put up a post about the battery going dead in my '98 suddenly even though it was less than six months old. We have had brutally cold weather and the suggestion that a cell had sulfated and shorted out made sense, especially when I put in a new battery the next morning and it lit right up.
I brought the car home and stayed there because I was sick and didn't get back out to the car for a couple of days. Went out yesterday, dead as a doornail. Well crap. Better get ready to start tracking down something that's shorted.
I went around to the passenger side and opened the door to find an ice scraper I had used on Tuesday to clear the windshield of ice and tossed in the car because I was freezing had fallen down between the side of the seat and the door, jamming the power seat control into an "on" position, rather effectively draining the battery.
I recharged the battery and all is well.
Told you it was embarrassing, but may be of benefit to someone else.
Charlie
I brought the car home and stayed there because I was sick and didn't get back out to the car for a couple of days. Went out yesterday, dead as a doornail. Well crap. Better get ready to start tracking down something that's shorted.
I went around to the passenger side and opened the door to find an ice scraper I had used on Tuesday to clear the windshield of ice and tossed in the car because I was freezing had fallen down between the side of the seat and the door, jamming the power seat control into an "on" position, rather effectively draining the battery.
I recharged the battery and all is well.
Told you it was embarrassing, but may be of benefit to someone else.
Charlie
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Joined: Jan 2007
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From: Rocky Mount Virginia
I put up a post about the battery going dead in my '98 suddenly even though it was less than six months old. We have had brutally cold weather and the suggestion that a cell had sulfated and shorted out made sense, especially when I put in a new battery the next morning and it lit right up.
I brought the car home and stayed there because I was sick and didn't get back out to the car for a couple of days. Went out yesterday, dead as a doornail. Well crap. Better get ready to start tracking down something that's shorted.
I went around to the passenger side and opened the door to find an ice scraper I had used on Tuesday to clear the windshield of ice and tossed in the car because I was freezing had fallen down between the side of the seat and the door, jamming the power seat control into an "on" position, rather effectively draining the battery.
I recharged the battery and all is well.
Told you it was embarrassing, but may be of benefit to someone else.
Charlie
I brought the car home and stayed there because I was sick and didn't get back out to the car for a couple of days. Went out yesterday, dead as a doornail. Well crap. Better get ready to start tracking down something that's shorted.
I went around to the passenger side and opened the door to find an ice scraper I had used on Tuesday to clear the windshield of ice and tossed in the car because I was freezing had fallen down between the side of the seat and the door, jamming the power seat control into an "on" position, rather effectively draining the battery.
I recharged the battery and all is well.
Told you it was embarrassing, but may be of benefit to someone else.
Charlie
Nah, not embarrassing. We have all done things like that. The key is, you found the problem!
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I went around to the passenger side and opened the door to find an ice scraper I had used on Tuesday to clear the windshield of ice and tossed in the car because I was freezing had fallen down between the side of the seat and the door, jamming the power seat control into an "on" position, rather effectively draining the battery.
