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No. The 2nd time since the battery tested good after it was towed in, they said they couldn't cover a battery under warranty. That's when they told me to start it every day or so.
Had an event where the Ram would not come out of 1st gear and resolved itself an hour later. Dealership replaced the battery after testing and flashed TCM, no charge. This occurred a little over the 2 year mark of ownership.
How old is your truck and how many miles?
THIS^^^. The battery has a 3/36 warranty just like the rest of your truck. If they have to replace it 10 times....they are all covered under warranty.
Interesting that you brought up the fuses not being fully pushed in. I noticed the same on my 2021 when I installed my dash cam and radar detector. I started pushing on ALL of them only to find that very few were fully seated. They are all good now, but I was surprised to find this!
They didn't say it wasn't covered. They stated they could find no reason to replace it under warranty as the battery was holding a charge when they diagnosed the truck.
The symptom set you earlier documented contains the signature of a bad battery. This is how many people describe the failure, and I've seen this three times myself. Most vehicles nowadays contain some form of intelligent battery monitoring. The give away is when the starter won't engage, won't start with a jump, and nearly every cluster lamp is illuminated. The intelligent battery system has sensed a battery that cannot supply all the current necessary to properly function all of the other systems and locks into the load sharing mode, which because of the faulty battery will not allow the starter to engage.
It didn't lock into any mode. During each of the 3 examples, the battery was completely dead. So dead that the overhead lights didn't even illuminate with a door open.
The "mode" I'm referring to is a constant monitoring circuit that predicts battery viability. It's working all of the time. If the intelligent battery circuit senses a decrease in battery efficiency, it enables a feature called Load Sharing or Shedding. This will begin to switch off various devices determined to be unnecessary for continued battery charge by measuring current flow in and out of the battery. It also stores the battery state of charge and battery state of function which establishes a prediction of the lowest voltage the battery will drop to during engine cranking. If the intelligent battery system believes the battery cannot produce enough current, the system shuts down the ability of engine cranking.
As my premier dealer said: "you should start it every day or so, or your microwave could be activating a module". Solution: cancel all electric service and hire someone to swing by and start it on schedule. Nonense.
The first thing they should do is perform a current draw test.
