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Are there any trouble codes setting? Exactly where has this been tested?
This battery problem has affected a lot of people. Hopefully the service department folks were able to build up their home solar arrays as Honda ignored dealer metrics.
The Sandman
2023 Hyundai Kona Limited AWD (wife) / 2015 Golf TSI (me) / 2019 Chevrolet Cruze Premier RS (daughter #1) / 2020 Hyundai Accent SE (daughter #2) / 2023 Subaru Impreza Base (son)
What infuriates me is I reached out to Honda corporate, and was first told there are no known battery issues - a flat out lie. The case manager then became very rude, when I offered to fax over the diagram my mechanic prepared for me. He became even more aggressively rude when I requested to have the problem fixed, due to manufacturing fault and negligence on behalf of Honda. I was therefore reminded my car is no longer under warranty. Furthermore, I had to shell out $200 to have my recent battery replaced, and Honda refused a refund, although I have proof of the defect. Corporate lastly advised me to go back to a dealership to have the problem looked at again, although I already have the proof. Of course, they don't want to lose millions to billions in worldwide recalls. So, their game is to keep the customer going in circles. A class-action lawsuit should be started. Anyone know any attorneys up for the challenge? Anyhow, I have 11 months left to pay the vehicle. I'm already looking elsewhere for a different vehicle brand. I'll NEVER buy another Honda again!!!
This isn't right.
I think you need to start with a clean blackboard here. Make sure the battery is full charged, and then have a qualified repair shop test for alternator output and do a load test on the battery cables. If all that checks out, then do a parasitic drain test. It's impossible to get to "the answer" without a methodical approach, eliminating things one at a time.
Car started fine today after work. Wife drove it 25 miles to pick up son from after school, didn't shut off during the pickup. She did stop for gas on the way from after school to home ( another 4,5 miles), car started right up after filling.
So, maybe the new battery hides some underneath problems.
She does make very short trips rather frequently, such as going out to buy lunch, buy coffee, stop by various stores on her way home, etc. She keeps the cell phone charger plugged in all the time. And she likes stronger A/C and heat. I guess very short trip with A/C turned on big could stress the battery to some extent.
I guess what happened yesterday morning was, the battery had barely enough power for her to start up the car in the garage, but she shut it off at a coffee shop only 3 miles from our house. So the alternator didn't have time to charge the battery more than what's consumed. Mind that we are in Boston, the weather was still chilly at 6:30 in the morning, so I bet she turned on the heat big.
my immediate solution to the problem is popping the hood of your car and detaching the negative charge from the battery when you shut your car off - there is no need to remove the positive charge as most of the power is being drained from grounding charge - you may need a little wrench to twist so the ring comes off, its super easy though, and you can pop it right back on in the morning - but this has ensured my battery wasnt drained come time to use it again so i didn't need a jump start
- the whole ordeal is a pain in the [non-permissible content removed] especially if you have to do this like i do everytime i want to shut off my car and turn it back on or leave it over night - but its a temporarily solution until the problem gets resolved!
Hope this helped! peace and blessings
As far as battery update, try to get it if you can. My dealer said there was no warranty recalls and battery update was not found when he plugged up my car so that kind of turned to a moot point even though my VIN falls in the range of the battery management update.
Poor Tom B. isn't adding to his ring collection.
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Mine basically sounds like this guy's like half the times I go to start it. Even though it's a diff year, you get the idea how it tries so dang hard and stutters a few times sometimes. If I had to use a key to start my car, I'd def be letting go each time it stuttered on me. Even in the video you can tell it sounds like it started until it resumes trying again (I mean like normal trying to start my car sound, I guess it's always trying)
Jess
Now that it's better tho, my car really is my baby again! Annoyingly, my friends still love bashing it every opportunity they get, and they def think it's a POS after the summer we had. The jokes are annoying, but much less now that its better and starts normally. It's mostly my best friend Jenn that loves talking about it, she like really loves telling everyone the story about my car at the beach when that trip comes up (you suck I wish you stayed home in June, hehe). But whatevs, I would prob do the same to her hehe.
Good thing is coworkers always drive me places now, so I'm OK with a few jokes. That started when people would joke about it as were getting into my car. So I'd tell them it rarely happened to me, and then like clockwork I'd have to try starting my stupid car for like a min and I found myself explaining push button start each time. I'm actually pretty sure people were jinxing it bc when they'd joke about it, I'd almost always have trouble starting the cat. The last time convinced me, since I was literally thinking this should be easy since Steve didn't give me crap this time, then he joked are you kidding, millenials can't start a freaking car with push button, as I buckled up. That really pissed me off, and of course then it wouldn't freaking start either, I was fuming! Shhhh... My car can hear you don't bad mouth her please, she's sensitive and holds grudges lol
Sidenote: after my beach ordeal and about 5 others, I think honda should shorten the time our cars try starting. 10s is painfully long and few people (Steve) made sure to tell me that I was hurting my car trying so long. I hated explaining the push button thingy. I even got into a discussion at work about it with steve and he told me to look in the manual before I break it. I did that when I first got the car jerk. I actually rem thinking the "if engine fails to start after 10 secs" section would hopefully never come up for me 🤣
But starting earlier this year when I started working from home and not driving as much it would die after 2-3 days. Finally bought a new battery and changed it, and by the end of the week it was dead again. Took it to a non-dealer mechanic and they claimed the autozone battery was bad. Took the batter back to autozone and they told me, nope it's fine. Took the car back to the dealer, and they said idk the car is fine it's definitely the battery. So I cursed autozone for not taking their bad battery back and got a new one from the mechnic for way too much money and heyyy what do you know that battery died after 3 days. So both batteries were fine!!! It's the car!!!
Finally find this thread and a similar thread on car gurus saying that it has to do with the eco-boost and that if you turn off eco-boost, turn on headlights 24/7, and drive a good distance every day then it would be fine! So I did that and it kinda almost worked!!! Until I drove all the way to San Diego from Riverside, then didn't drive for two days and boom dead. Can't even jump. So I towed it home and decided it was time to contact an auto-defects lawyer.
If anything good comes of it, I'll let you all know!
Did you get anything from the auto-defectes lawer Seems a lot of people are having this issue. I too have a 2012 Civic with this battery drain issue. Honda dealer kept it almost a month and couldn't figure it out. Even though it happened multiple times while in their dealership.