I had a battery pop on me coming out of Menards lot. I had to shut engine off and open the hatch for the employee to check out my purchase. Got in, turned key, and literally, it made a pop. It was so dead that rolling down the hill, stick shift, it would not fire. A jump start got it going and drove across the street to Runnings and put in a new battery. I would have loved to tear that battery apart but of course had core value.
Daughter and son in law go to Hawaii for two weeks. Come home and car is dead a door nail. He jumps it, drives for about 20 minutes and says seems ok now. I told him he would need to drive to the west coast to get it fully charged because once that initial charge the alternater pushes in, that battery will push back and only a small charge will continue. I don't think he believed me.
I told him he needed to hook a slow charger on and leave it on for a day or so if he had a chance of getting it back to full charge. Told him, do not buy one of those automatic chargers as it will just shut off in a hour or so because that battery will push back (counter electromotive force) and fool the charger. Well, he ended up with a automatic and it charged for less than two hours and shut off.
He was down here about a week later, 240 mile drive, and I was tying to explain things to him. Fully charged battery will read 12.6 after standing over night. Near dead will show maybe 12 volts. So, we went out in the morning and I put my load tester on. I did not apply any load as it showed just under 12 volts. I said I don't dare load test or I will run it dead. Then I hooked load tester to my pickup. That battery is 7 years old now and I was suspecting it might be getting a little tired. It did not show a full 12.6 either. Only 12.4. Load tested ok but not quite as good as I would expect for a good battery that size.
They are still driving on that battery , but I will bet if they let it sit for a couple of days, it will be dead again. I don't know how much draw all the gadgets the car has but in four years of stop and go, short trip to work driving, I would say that battery has never had a chance to fulfill it's manufactured potential. It just never gets up to full charge so it gradually loses it's capacity.
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