Trunk light killed battery?

[Ultramaroon]

He had an account on here but ichi banned him for trolling too much.

[Scrappydoo]

Originally Posted by guybo

Get the battery properly charged up (either with your own charger- 6A overnight or 20A for a few hours or at a garage for a few hours) and you'll minimize the permanent damage done to the battery for longer battery life.

If you try to drive it around to charge it up, you'll decrease battery life and most likely in a few weeks have battery issues again.

No you won't.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Scrappydoo

No you won't.

Wrong ....... again, there Scrappydoo .......


humfrz

[Songha]

Originally Posted by Impureclient

So I left my trunk not latched last night and I guess that drained the battery down to nothing sitting about 24 hours. Shouldn't that have taken longer to drain it so badly?
Like dead as in nothing but one tiny light was lit up on the dash, super dead.
Is that normal for this car? Usually the lights will go off after a few minutes inside but I never thought about whether the trunk light will do that.
I never had a car battery drain like this. The trunk is hard to see if it's shut fully on this car so I guess it was bound to happen but on a newish(1.5 yr old, not sure how
much that converts to in Canadian years) battery just running that trunk light, that seems kind of odd.

I got into an accident the day before Thanksgiving. I was rear ended, this left my trunk unable to close leaving my trunk light on. My battery drained and I wasn't able to start it without a jump. I didn't think of jumping it cause I didn't know it caused it. I assumed the accident caused my car not to start.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Songha

I got into an accident the day before Thanksgiving. I was rear ended, this left my trunk unable to close leaving my trunk light on. My battery drained and I wasn't able to start it without a jump. I didn't think of jumping it cause I didn't know it caused it. I assumed the accident caused my car not to start.

You know what they say an assumption ...... "it's the mother of all f***ups" .....


humfrz

[SLVRSRFR]

Originally Posted by humfrz

...... what the heck is wrong with you, SLVRSRFR ........ THAT is waaaaay too simple.


humfrz

K.I.S.S.

Keep It Simple, Stupid.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by SLVRSRFR

K.I.S.S.

Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Yep, a old and good military acronym ......


humfrz

[DikensCarol]

The car has some problems. And I, too, faced a problem like yours. The light bulb in the trunk discharged my battery to zero. I found out that it was just a bad bulb installed, and it will always drain the battery that way. But I found a solution to the problem. I purchased a LED light at https://www.amazon.com/Vont-Hurrican.../dp/B00NPLSZF8 , and it is an indispensable thing in my trunk. And plus my battery does not interact in any way and I am calm. The moral is, if you are using bulbs, it is better to check them 100 times before installing them in your car. But I won't trade my light for any cool bulb.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by DikensCarol

I hope you will troll less!

irony.

[sygfrid]

Canadian battery shelf life years may be indeed shorter since 1 of the battery's biggest enemies is (extreme) cold/heat.

I can no longer recall but the stock battery has just "adequate" Reserve Capacity, Amp Hour, & C20 (battery features explained here: https://www.autobatteries.com/en-us/...ement/overview ) & can easily be drained by halogen bulbs such as that in the trunk or map light.

If you still have halogen lights in critical areas such as trunk, map, vanity, door, etc. it's best to switch to LED to reduce the battery drainage & overall power consumption. A 194 halogen bulb in the trunk is about 5 watts whereas a brighter LED only consumes 1w.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by sygfrid

Canadian battery shelf life years may be indeed shorter since 1 of the battery's biggest enemies is (extreme) cold/heat.

I can no longer recall but the stock battery has just "adequate" Reserve Capacity, Amp Hour, & C20 (battery features explained here: https://www.autobatteries.com/en-us/...ement/overview ) & can easily be drained by halogen bulbs such as that in the trunk or map light.

If you still have halogen lights in critical areas such as trunk, map, vanity, door, etc. it's best to switch to LED to reduce the battery drainage & overall power consumption. A 194 halogen bulb in the trunk is about 5 watts whereas a brighter LED only consumes 1w.

led's are efficient they said...

they won't run your battery down they said...