Eternity
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That is what it felt like this morning.
'21 Diesel
On the Oregon coast, damp, cool, foggy. I've had a problem over the last couple days when randomly I'd come back the Jeep and the battery was dead. Jumped it, ran it to charge. Later, started fine, started fine again, drove again, stopped, 1hr later, dead. Not an old battery just got it in June.
Now, this morning, it needed a jump, went to breakfast with friends, got in and it barely started after 1 hour, but it did. I had 1 gallon of gas left, so I calmly began to drive down the road doing about 30mph and a few blocks later, I heard a sound underneath and felt a little shudder like I dropped a rock or stick. Didn't think to much of it but about 10 seconds later, the engine simply sputtered and died. I still have fuel. It started and ran for about 20 seconds, sputtered and died. was barely able to roll it back off the road and now it would start for 2 seconds and shut off.
Now after start and start, the battery is getting tired. I put a jumper battery on, still only 1 second of run. But, wait, there's more!!!!
Now, all hell brakes loose. The dash start looking possessed with everything blinking and flashing. Go out to the fuse box and the relays sound like they are clicking on and off to a rock n roll song as the drums. I figure, disconnect everything and perhaps reset it. So, all batteries disconnected completely. Plug back in and still, it will start for a second and die. All random errors show up, anti-lock, power steering, water in fuel, you name it everything is error flashing.
Try again and again with the complete disconnect to reset, now the entire row on the gear shift from Park downward are bright orange. Can't even go to aux to roll up the window. Then, oh yes, there's even more, it starts to say that there is no keyfob and to press the start with it. I do, and nothing.
Did the brains get fried? Is there something like this someone has come across and knows what it is. I was just leaving an RV campground and brought my motorhome back to the street and connected it up and dragged it down to the next campground (yes, in N on diff....fortunately Jeep allows that to shift without power). Able to push it into our new campground spot, but dead, dead, dead.
Any ideas or experience?
'21 Diesel
On the Oregon coast, damp, cool, foggy. I've had a problem over the last couple days when randomly I'd come back the Jeep and the battery was dead. Jumped it, ran it to charge. Later, started fine, started fine again, drove again, stopped, 1hr later, dead. Not an old battery just got it in June.
Now, this morning, it needed a jump, went to breakfast with friends, got in and it barely started after 1 hour, but it did. I had 1 gallon of gas left, so I calmly began to drive down the road doing about 30mph and a few blocks later, I heard a sound underneath and felt a little shudder like I dropped a rock or stick. Didn't think to much of it but about 10 seconds later, the engine simply sputtered and died. I still have fuel. It started and ran for about 20 seconds, sputtered and died. was barely able to roll it back off the road and now it would start for 2 seconds and shut off.
Now after start and start, the battery is getting tired. I put a jumper battery on, still only 1 second of run. But, wait, there's more!!!!
Now, all hell brakes loose. The dash start looking possessed with everything blinking and flashing. Go out to the fuse box and the relays sound like they are clicking on and off to a rock n roll song as the drums. I figure, disconnect everything and perhaps reset it. So, all batteries disconnected completely. Plug back in and still, it will start for a second and die. All random errors show up, anti-lock, power steering, water in fuel, you name it everything is error flashing.
Try again and again with the complete disconnect to reset, now the entire row on the gear shift from Park downward are bright orange. Can't even go to aux to roll up the window. Then, oh yes, there's even more, it starts to say that there is no keyfob and to press the start with it. I do, and nothing.
Did the brains get fried? Is there something like this someone has come across and knows what it is. I was just leaving an RV campground and brought my motorhome back to the street and connected it up and dragged it down to the next campground (yes, in N on diff....fortunately Jeep allows that to shift without power). Able to push it into our new campground spot, but dead, dead, dead.
Any ideas or experience?
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