UncleBob
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- Bob
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- Fullerton, CA
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- 2019 Ford Ranger Lariat SuperCrew 2WD in Magnetic
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Well, I went to go to a doctor's appointment this afternoon and the battery was just dead... Nothing, nada. It surprised me.
Tried to put it on my charger and it would drop off with a failure code (on charger) that indicated a short in one of the cells.
Not all that confident on the charger's validity. I measured only about 6V DC across the battery posts.
At any rate, since I had less than 700 miles, I had it towed to dealer. I had to jump start it to even get it out of Park and out of the garage to put it on the flat bed tow truck.
Two or three times this past week I noticed that when I got in the truck there was a message displayed on the screen that the truck had gone into 'battery save' mode as if to indicate it thought it had detected a drain some where and was trying to protect itself.
While at the dealer I am going to have them look into the P0200 trouble codes that have popped up this last week as well. Assuming the codes didn't get lost when the battery was drained.
Tried to put it on my charger and it would drop off with a failure code (on charger) that indicated a short in one of the cells.
Not all that confident on the charger's validity. I measured only about 6V DC across the battery posts.
At any rate, since I had less than 700 miles, I had it towed to dealer. I had to jump start it to even get it out of Park and out of the garage to put it on the flat bed tow truck.
Two or three times this past week I noticed that when I got in the truck there was a message displayed on the screen that the truck had gone into 'battery save' mode as if to indicate it thought it had detected a drain some where and was trying to protect itself.
While at the dealer I am going to have them look into the P0200 trouble codes that have popped up this last week as well. Assuming the codes didn't get lost when the battery was drained.
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