I just posted an answer on how happy I was with the Vette. Then went to the garage to go to work and DBS. Tow truck on the way. Dealer says probably nothing major. I will update.

 

same car-alternate with my other car every other week. no trickle charges. no dbs.

 

Hopefully it is just a bad battery.

 

Be suspicious of the battery, my 06 battery had to be replaced.

 

Dead batteries from any cause are uncommon with A6:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/poll...pollid=1500606

'DBS' refers to dead batteries in '05 MN6 cars, which failed despite being properly shutdown in reverse, as required.

 

Still waiting for the tow. I had also heard that there were problems with some of the batteries in the 2006 Vette. I just want to make sure that that is in fact the problem. If it is being caused by something else, then I suspect that I will keep going through batteries. Fortunately, my Honda Goldwing will get me to work, albeit a little late today. (Never had a problem with the Wing).

 

That shows how much the dealer knows about DBS if in fact that is the problem!

 

My A6 sits unused for sometimes a week+ at a time, fires up everytime...hopefully it's just an isolated incident.

 

Dealer looked at the car and replaced the battery. The tech said the battery was defective. It did not put out enough voltage to even get a read on the tech's battery tester. Tech said this should solve the probelm. If not, in his words, "we will take it to the next level." Hopefgully there is no next level. However, great dealer response and service.

 

 

Is he telling you that your dead battery was dead?
Or did they try and charge it up and then test it?

It's way easier for the dealer to switch out the 'offending' part without really testing it or looking into the problem. It also pays better, I hear.

At least you're running now, but you may still be at square one....

 

Another crap AC/Delco battery. A rash of dead batteries on this forum over the last few days alone.

If your car had been an '05 manual, "some people" here would be screaming from the rootops about another case of '05 manual "DBS."

Your example is yet another reason why I don't buy into the "'05 manual DBS" hype.

 

So, are you actually saying that those of us with MN6 cars whose batteries went dead for no apparent reason, and whose batteries subsequently checked out fine, didn't really experience what is called "DBS"? I'm still on the same Delco battery I had in the car when it went dead on 11/12/05. The battery, which had drained to zero volts in a matter of days, took a charge immediately and has been fine since.

There are certainly numerous instances of bad Delco batteries showing up in cars, but there's more to it than just that. The fact that the vast majority of drained batteries turned up in 2005 MN6 cars, and not the autos, indicates that more than just the battery is involved. You may or may not "buy into the hype", but you're still running a battery tender and Priority Start on your own 2005 MN6. Try disconnecting the electronic life line sometime and see what happens. You may wind up with the same reaction I had when mine went dead after 13 months of normal use....I believe my reaction was "WTF?".

 

I never said that. When I refer to DBS hype I am talking specifically about "stats" which point to a 25%-33% rate of occurence of "DBS" among manual '05 Corvettes.

I am talking about the attitude that any and every dead battery in an '05 manual is automatically "DBS", but the same dead battery occurence in any other car is not "and by definition" cannot be DBS.

And statements to the effect that any and everyone who has switched batteries and then gone on to have no further issues "has just been lucky."

Thats what I mean when I say "hype".


There is also the issue of the shift into reverse requirement or wind up with a dead battery in the '05s.

This requirement alone and failure to heed it would, without a doubt, account for some of that "vast majority" of dead batteries turning up in manual '05s which you speak of.

Indeed I do have a Priority Start. I also have my Battery TenderPlus from my C5, and Priority Starts will be going into my other vehicles and my wife's car as well.

But please do tell the whole story. The reason for the Battery Tender is because I live in the Northeast and "store" the car during the winter leaving it sit for weeks at a time in an unheated garage. It is to keep the battery properly charged/maintained while the car is not in use or in minimal use during the winter. It has been off the car since it was taken out of storage when the weather broke.

The Priority Start is to prevent the battery from succumbing to any parasitic drain. As mentioned before, they will be installed on my other cars for the same purpose as soon as they are here.

By that logic, why don't I just disconnect my airbags while I am at it? Statistically I am very unlikely to have an accident, and even if I do, stats don't indicate that airbags will protect me from injury.

 

Yep. A competent tech would have wanted to find out why the battery was dead. Recharging the battery and testing it under load would tell him if the battery was in fact defective. Testing the car's charging system would tell him if that were the culprit, etc. But just throwing a voltmeter across an already known to be discharged battery doesn't tell him much at all.

 

While I was getting my defective AC/ Delco battery replaced, the service manager mentioned that 2 other same Ac/ Delco batteries were also found to be defective the same week on other GM cars.

 

Both of them '05 manual transmission Corvettes, right?