I find that my SL600 likes draining the battery, I’m not sure what is drawing off electrons as there is not much in there to do that
—FT Sent from my iPad > On Mar 22, 2022, at 8:00 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > SL500 was acting up, not wanting to stay charged. I figured it was because > it’s rarely driven these days. Finally got to the point today where it > wouldn’t tale a charge, period. > > Hauled the 4+ year old flooded cell H8 down to the Advanced Auto and was > pleased to see the last of the long-timers still there. I waited for him so > he could check the battery, and it was kaput. > > I put a two year battery in it as I’m planning on selling the car soon. He > was trying to find me something cheaper but I told him not to bother, as I > didn’t want to have to run around to another store, but would just go with > the cheapest one they had (the two year “silver”). > > For those of you who might frequent Advance for batteries, it’s been near > impossible to get a promo code that will work on a battery any more. I > bemoaned the fact to this guy and he was able to put in a $17 discount on the > sale from some obscure code. Nice. > > What’s interesting is that I was having all sorts of weird faults, no doubt > due to the voltage dropping into the basement when stuff got turned on. I ran > the DAS on it when I got everything finished and cleared all the faults, so > all is well now. > > -D > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
