DBS Fix
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Melting Slicks
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From: Laurel Maryland
St. Jude Donor '05-'06-'07-'08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13
DBS Fix
so my new dealer says anyway. Said that my problems were from a bad battery, replaced it and seems fine for the moment. Total charge for diagnostics and the battery was around 155 dollars, all under warranty. Well, for the time being, I like my car again. Don't trust it one bit, but I like it. We shall see. Good luck to all of you DBS'ers--e
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Replacing the battery is certainly easy, but will not necessarily help DBS. DSB, by our own forum definition, means the battery died because of another, as yet unknown factor in the MN6 cars, not because the battery was bad.
If yours is not a shifter, you may have been fixed!
If yours is not a shifter, you may have been fixed!
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Melting Slicks
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St. Jude Donor '05-'06-'07-'08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13
Yea, its a shifter, I was trying to find some levity in this situation. They did exactly what I thought they would do. Since GM doesn't know what's causing this, I was under no false illusions that a tech would know. I pulled relay 46 and the situation got worse by the day, till it wouldn't hold a charge for 3 hours. I think the battery was bad and maybe I didn't even have DBS, yea right!!--e
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Originally Posted by Corvette Junkie
It wouldn't be the first bad battery that came in a Corvette!
It certainly would not be.Some will tell you that Delco batteries are not the best. Hopefully the new battery solves your problem.
Originally Posted by Hoonose
Yea, that does sound more like a dying battery and not classic DBS.
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Originally Posted by crazyeddie
Said that my problems were from a bad battery, replaced it and seems fine for the moment. -e
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St. Jude Donor '06-'07-'08
Originally Posted by penniman
I've been wondering how many of these "bad batteries" may have been caused by dbs... ... Perhaps GM's fix will be a deep cycle marine battery.
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Originally Posted by penniman
I've been wondering how many of these "bad batteries" may have been caused by dbs. If the draw on the battery is 1.5 amps which results in a dead battery in two days. May not someone be having repeated incidences of dbs starting, but by driving the next day not allow a full discharge. All these cycles of drawing down the battery will shorten its life, and the amount of time the battery will sustain the dbs amp draw. Perhaps GM's fix will be a deep cycle marine battery.
But DBS is usually quite abrupt and dramatic, and the battery is usually dead as a doornail. Repeated episodes, and the car is sure to end up at the service center.
I think the bad battery incidence with automatics is nothing unusual.
