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Old Sep 13, 2005 | 11:32 PM
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10,000 miles and 5 months and finally have a dead battery. Went hunting for 5 days and come home to DBS
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Old Sep 14, 2005 | 10:10 AM
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10,000 miles and 5 months and finally have a dead battery. Went hunting for 5 days and come home to DBS

what did you bag?
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Old Sep 14, 2005 | 01:21 PM
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Hopefully a Delco!!
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Old Sep 14, 2005 | 04:55 PM
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Manual or Automatic??
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Old Sep 14, 2005 | 06:07 PM
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manual and it was in reverse, and no I did not bag anything.
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Old Sep 14, 2005 | 10:15 PM
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Insist on a new battery.
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Old Sep 14, 2005 | 10:20 PM
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Kinda glad I picked up an automatic. I didn't drive mine for one month and it fired right up.
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Old Sep 14, 2005 | 11:27 PM
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Kinda glad I picked up an automatic. I didn't drive mine for one month and it fired right up.
That's why it's called an 'automatic'...it automatically starts. Those of you with 'manuals' need to break out your cranks!
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Originally Posted by jabez
Kinda glad I picked up an automatic. I didn't drive mine for one month and it fired right up.

Went on vacation did not drive the car for more that two weeks and it started right up. Maybe automatics do not suffer from DBS.
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