Dead Battery Poll

[Squatch79]

My 21 1500 w/ Etorque has been sounding weak for the last few weeks and it let me know yesterday morning that it was done. Swapped it out for an EverStart Platinum AGM H8 group size. So I got around 2.5 years on the factory battery. Around 63k on the odo as of right now.

 

[Mr.Grid]

Last week I installed a group 49 (H8) Farm+ Fleet 7 yr Platinum battery in my 28 month old Ram. On sale for $150 OTD. I had purchased the larger battery cover last year for this. My truck gets little use 5 colder months of the year and the other 7 warmer months it’s doing much towing out of my state. New batteries are cheap compared to where one might have an unexpected failure. Given the poor battery life some have experienced I decided not to wait.

 

[2001gw]

Bought truck in April, 2021. Currently 28,300 miles. Battery has been sounding weak and this morning truck would not start. Started it with my handy little jump starter (worked great!). After that the check engine light has been on and I have no air conditioning. Called dealer. Scheduled an appointment for tomorrow morning. They said battery is under warranty. I'll let you know the results of my visit in another post in this thread tomorrow.

 

[2001gw]

Okay, here's my update on post #363.

I had a 10:15 appointment at my RAM dealer. I arrived at 10:00 AM. They checked me in and I took a seat in the waiting room. At 10:14 I saw a tech drive my truck to one of the stalls. At 11:00 AM they called my name and the truck was ready. They installed a new battery, got my AC going and cleared the CEL. I left at 11:05. There was "no charge" for the battery or service.

 

[Scram1500]

This month marks 5 years using the original battery. Seems to finally be giving up the ghost as it just started cranking a little slower.

 

[MSgt Van]

Due to lack of logo/labeling on my battery I'll assume it's original to my 2019. Probably time for a new one.

 

[Scram1500]

Coming up on 6 years for the oem battery. I'm amazed

 

[FLiPMaRC]

Coming up on 6 years for the oem battery. I'm amazed

Balls of steel I replaced my OEM battery after 3 years. Nothing wrong with it. Just didn't want to chance getting stranded.

 

[Scram1500]

Lol maybe brass, got a Noco jump starter

 

[Dewey]

3 years on mine. I’m going till it dies. I like to live dangerously.

Now that I said that it’ll happen tomorrow.

I carry a jump pack just in case.

 

[1791]

my 2020 BH with a 2019 build date gave up right at 5 years old. replaced it with a Walmart ever start platinum agm. i traded the BH in on a Laramie 6 months later and kept/swapped in my new battery at the dealer while they got the paperwork ready......

 

[OCD Solutions]

My truck was dead again this morning so I stopped in at Advance Auto to have the battery tested and the guy just swapped it out under Warranty. The OEM battery lasted almost 3 1/2 years but I only had 2 yrs and 9 months on the replacement, (H7, Diehard Platinum AGM) battery.

My radio has continued to play music lately, despite everything being powered off, which is what I believe is draining the battery. It'll be curious to see if the new battery resolves everything or if I have something else going on.

 

[Dewey]

My truck was dead again this morning so I stopped in at Advance Auto to have the battery tested and the guy just swapped it out under Warranty. The OEM battery lasted almost 3 1/2 years but I only had 2 yrs and 9 months on the replacement, (H7, Diehard Platinum AGM) battery.

My radio has continued to play music lately, despite everything being powered off, which is what I believe is draining the battery. It'll be curious to see if the new battery resolves everything or if I have something else going on.

My truck recently started playing the radio after powering off and opening the drivers door. No idea why that started but didn’t happen till after a recent UC 5 update a few weeks ago. I defeated it by changing the radio off delay to zero in the vehicle settings. Still weird that it wouldn’t immediately turn off when opening the drivers door but now is off before that.

 

[OCD Solutions]

Interesting, that sounds identical to what my truck is doing and an update would be a very plausible explanation. I checked the radio version when this first started and it hadn't changed from the last time I did a manual update a year prior. I have the Uconnect 4, which I don't think will update automatically or OTA.

I had the battery disconnected today for over an hour so I'll see what a new battery and full reset will accomplish.

Also. when I was checking the version info in dealer mode, I noticed that there was an option to save all user settings to a USB and so I did it. I tried to restore it today but it failed. I'm going to try again tomorrow once the system has had more time to recognize all the different modules.

 

[Scram1500]

Me and my big mouth Had a lazy start on Saturday and to jump it on Sunday. RIP 7/19 - 5/25