Dead battery

[Ghost10]

Got home from a 1.5 hour drive from the renaissance pleasure fair here in California last night.

Turned on the ACC and was listening to music cleaning out the truck and also adjusting the rear electronic seats “there was a base ball jammed between the seat” so was adjusting them trying to get it out. This was 20min in and the dash says battery low start vehicle soon. I go to start it and it wouldn’t turn over in fact it turned off everything but the start button amber light and clicked 10 times in a row before stopping.

Is my AC Delcp battery that’s less than 8months old be failing already? It was also extremely hot all day, plus using music and the electric seats just killed the charge ? I fear it’s something worse than the battery.

Experts? Has this happened to you?
Maybe there is a reason why there is a secon spot in the engine bay for a auxiliary battery


I have a NOCO Boost PLUS
Charged it all night, should I just jump start the truck and call it good or call AAA and have them run a diagnostic?

 

[pwtr02ss]

Got home from a 1.5 hour drive from the renaissance pleasure fair here in California last night.

Turned on the ACC and was listening to music cleaning out the truck and also adjusting the rear electronic seats “there was a base ball jammed between the seat” so was adjusting them trying to get it out. This was 20min in and the dash says battery low start vehicle soon. I go to start it and it wouldn’t turn over in fact it turned off everything but the start button amber light and clicked 10 times in a row before stopping.

Is my AC Delcp battery that’s less than 8months old be failing already? It was also extremely hot all day, plus using music and the electric seats just killed the charge ? I fear it’s something worse than the battery.

Experts? Has this happened to you?
Maybe there is a reason why there is a secon spot in the engine bay for a auxiliary battery


I have a NOCO Boost PLUS
Charged it all night, should I just jump start the truck and call it good or call AAA and have them run a diagnostic?

Id charge it overnight on a low setting. See what happens. If it doesn't start, replace the battery

 

[swathdiver]

Got home from a 1.5 hour drive from the renaissance pleasure fair here in California last night.

Turned on the ACC and was listening to music cleaning out the truck and also adjusting the rear electronic seats “there was a base ball jammed between the seat” so was adjusting them trying to get it out. This was 20min in and the dash says battery low start vehicle soon. I go to start it and it wouldn’t turn over in fact it turned off everything but the start button amber light and clicked 10 times in a row before stopping.

Is my AC Delcp battery that’s less than 8months old be failing already? It was also extremely hot all day, plus using music and the electric seats just killed the charge ? I fear it’s something worse than the battery.

Experts? Has this happened to you?
Maybe there is a reason why there is a secon spot in the engine bay for a auxiliary battery


I have a NOCO Boost PLUS
Charged it all night, should I just jump start the truck and call it good or call AAA and have them run a diagnostic?

Yesterday I discovered that my cables were loose after a day of driving. Battery wasn't taking a full charge. Eight months in, if the battery is bad, the replacement is free.

 

[Jimmyy]

I have a Delco Advantage battery in my DD not impressed with it. Year and a half year old and when tested it shows 60%. I'll need a new one by winter.

 

[swathdiver]

I have a Delco Advantage battery in my DD not impressed with it. Year and a half year old and when tested it shows 60%. I'll need a new one by winter.

That's their low end battery, 18 month warranty if memory serves.

The Gold ones are rated for 42 months. My Silver rated for 30 lasted 48.

Not sure which group size are in yours, for mine they make one with a higher reserve capacity so it can power stuff with the motor off longer.

 

[Joseph Garcia]

If you have an aftermarket audio system with some semi-serious amplification, and playing at high volume, it can drain the battery in an amazingly short period of time.

 

[Ghost10]

OK so I am plugged everything like my USB Apple charger USB Dash Cam my Motorola XTL5000
And it started up this morning it was hesitant I’m at work right now and noticed that when I first started it’s kind of hard to start and then the needle shoots up at 14 on the dash but as I’m just sitting here idling the needle drop down to the 10 mark so the real question is is it a bad battery or a bad alternator fingers crossed it’s just a ************* AC Delco battery I would like to get off work early today and go to AutoZone and remove the battery exchange it for a new one because the batteries not even six months old looking at my bank charges

 

[Doubeleive]

OK so I am plugged everything like my USB Apple charger USB Dash Cam my Motorola XTL5000
And it started up this morning it was hesitant I’m at work right now and noticed that when I first started it’s kind of hard to start and then the needle shoots up at 14 on the dash but as I’m just sitting here idling the needle drop down to the 10 mark so the real question is is it a bad battery or a bad alternator fingers crossed it’s just a ************* AC Delco battery I would like to get off work early today and go to AutoZone and remove the battery exchange it for a new one because the batteries not even six months old looking at my bank charges

autozone will test it for you

 

[89Suburban]

Pick up a load tester it's good to have one in the tool box.

Amazon.com

 

[swathdiver]

OK so I am plugged everything like my USB Apple charger USB Dash Cam my Motorola XTL5000
And it started up this morning it was hesitant I’m at work right now and noticed that when I first started it’s kind of hard to start and then the needle shoots up at 14 on the dash but as I’m just sitting here idling the needle drop down to the 10 mark so the real question is is it a bad battery or a bad alternator fingers crossed it’s just a ************* AC Delco battery I would like to get off work early today and go to AutoZone and remove the battery exchange it for a new one because the batteries not even six months old looking at my bank charges

It is normal for the voltage to get boosted shortly after first start up and then it went down once it detected that the state of charge was high.

Numerous short trips won't allow a battery to maintain its charge.