Dead battery already?

[J0shM1lls]

Josh, this just happened to my wife. Battery was less than a year old and it turns out that the dealership had put a crap non-ford battery in when my wife took it in for service last time at the dealer we no longer go to.

It was too small of a battery for the truck and therefore died early. Since the clowns put in a non-OE battery I had to pay to have it replaced. Probably not your issue, but maybe something to check.

It is an OE Motorcraft battery, I'm thinking I just got a bad one?

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My original battery died with in a year and a half. Instead of getting a new one I just put in my Red Top Optima from my old truck and a year and a half later this one is now dying.
It's around 5 or 6 years old so who knows. I'm about to purchase a Yellow Top Optima this week and may even put 2 of them hooked up together.
I've been running HID's for fog lights for almost three years and HID's for head lights for the past year and a half so all of that running together is killing my batteries I'm sure plus I have a security camera that runs none stop in my truck.
Hopefully I'll have better luck with the Yellow Top Optima's cause there made for constant discharge and recharge from what I've read up on them but I'm always open to suggestions from you guys to avoid this.

Hmmm thanks Iron... I might upgrade depending on what Ford tells me.

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Well I had the same thing happen to me. It must be the live wire. I called sct about it and they said it goes into a low power mode for 2 days then shuts off completely. They said to unplug it if u aren't goin to use the truck for a couple days. Mine sat almost 2 days and it was completely dead. Gonna see if the battery is OK maybe try to recondition it. If that don't work I will just upgrade it.

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Really!? That's just stupid... It needs to just turn off when the truck is off, none of this so called low power mode crap. So it must've been the combination of having the lights on with the engine off and the draw from the LiveWire that did it.... I guess I either need to "shutdown" the unit or just unplug it every time I get out of the truck...

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Sorry Nick,

I would be interested in how much power the live wire pulls?

So no setting where it goes to a sleep mode after a certain amount of time?

Ill look in the settings of the LiveWire on my lunch see if its something that can be changed...

 

[NickPic83]

Sorry Nick,

I would be interested in how much power the live wire pulls?

So no setting where it goes to a sleep mode after a certain amount of time?

Goes to sleep after 2 minutes of the ignition being off then shuts off completely after 2 days. Sct said the may shorten the OFF time to a day or less and to look for updates on the website

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[Fred]

Goes to sleep after 2 minutes of the ignition being off then shuts off completely after 2 days. Sct said the may shorten the OFF time to a day or less and to look for updates on the website

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Maybe, should have mentioned that to you...or something in the directions...shit out a sticker on the face "will kill your battery"

 

[ISFast]

a dual battery setup with an isolator is the way to go if you have a constant current draw when the vehicle is off. i just did an f150 recently with ths setup. he was a camper, so he wanted to have a fridge running without draining hs main battery. second battery was placed under the rear seat. i had to build a small tray to keep the battery secure.

if you go the optima route, the red tops are for starting. the yellows are for capacity, and the blue are for marine. maybe a red for under the hood and a yellow for the aux battery. if you are only going to have 1 battery then use a yellow. they dont get damaged by being completely discharged.

I killed a yellow top by discharging the battery one night running the stereo. The battery wouldn't take a charge and therefore it wouldn't keep a charge.

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My original battery died with in a year and a half. Instead of getting a new one I just put in my Red Top Optima from my old truck and a year and a half later this one is now dying.
It's around 5 or 6 years old so who knows. I'm about to purchase a Yellow Top Optima this week and may even put 2 of them hooked up together.
I've been running HID's for fog lights for almost three years and HID's for head lights for the past year and a half so all of that running together is killing my batteries I'm sure plus I have a security camera that runs none stop in my truck.
Hopefully I'll have better luck with the Yellow Top Optima's cause there made for constant discharge and recharge from what I've read up on them but I'm always open to suggestions from you guys to avoid this.

I would only get Yellow tops. Lots of family and friends have had nothing but bad luck from the Reds and Blues. The only reason I had a Yellow go down on me was because I failed to keep some charge in the battery and it shorted one of the cells out.

 

[Fred]

Why two days...what genius thought of that...

So, I was thinking, dangerous I know, but I have a trickle charger hooked up to the Vette...I was thinking about do the same with the Raptor..except use a quick connect/disconnect setup

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Do they make a "silver" top to match my truck?

I am glad I am not color blind

 

[ISFast]

^^^


Thats what I would do for sure! Trickle charger

 

[The Car Stereo Company]

let me rephrase that....... the yellow top batteries can be 85% discharged and recharged may times over without damaging it.

but yes it is possible to damage it if it is 100% dead. usually not, but sometimes

 

[ISFast]

let me rephrase that....... the yellow top batteries can be 85% discharged and recharged may times over without damaging it.

but yes it is possible to damage it if it is 100% dead. usually not, but sometimes

Mine was old and I was a ******* about it! 200 bucks later I was back up and running.

 

[NickPic83]

Well for now I am just unplugging the livewire if I know I won't be driving it the next day. I'm gonna see how the battery holds up for now. If its not the same anymore I won't even bother getting a free crap battery I will just get something better. not sure what tho, yet...

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[IRONMAN]

Out with the old and in with the new.
Black one on the tail gate is my original one which I handing it in for my core.
Got a GREAT price on this bad boy...$175 and some change out the door.
Advance auto parts has 20% off online and they honored it in the store.
They wanted $210 plus tax originally