(help!) DEAD BATTERY b/c Rear Door unable to lock

scarletbegonias · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:17 pm

Has this ever happened to anyone else?? Any help would be greatly-appreciated..

My battery is completely dead and it's most likely because the rear door is unable to lock ..it keeps trying to lock itself every few seconds with a repeating 'click' sound thus wearing on the battery which caused it to die! I'm buying a new battery right now but I'm sure once installed it will continue to drain because of the lock situation :shock:

Help!

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:25 pm

the same thing happened to me when my battery died, id bet you'll be fine once you ge it replaced

dirtykj · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:26 pm

It's not the lock getting stuck that's draining the battery. It's the battery not having enough charge left that's making the computers acting weird

Change the battery and you'll be fine.

scarletbegonias · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:36 pm

Sweet...that was the problem, thanks! :wink:

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:44 pm

lol no problem that same thing happened to me when i was at a lake in OK and it was just a sudden thing bc i had just started it and drove a little and then 5 min later i got back in and nothing! it was weird

scarletbegonias · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:54 pm

just dropped 100 on a diehard so i don't think ill be having any more problems like that again for hopefully a while

06 KJ Sport · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:08 pm

Hope it was a Gel Cell for $100 :oops:

jeepkj02 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:34 pm

I just bought an optima red top for $139+tax and waiting for my $25 rebate to come.

jaysus · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:38 pm

jsc7002 wrote:

lol no problem that same thing happened to me when i was at a lake in OK and it was just a sudden thing bc i had just started it and drove a little and then 5 min later i got back in and nothing! it was weird

the same *exact* thing happened to me... on my honeymoon.

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:01 pm

jaysus wrote:

jsc7002 wrote:

lol no problem that same thing happened to me when i was at a lake in OK and it was just a sudden thing bc i had just started it and drove a little and then 5 min later i got back in and nothing! it was weird

the same *exact* thing happened to me... on my honeymoon.

oh shoot that sucks, thats not funny but then again it kind of is

beforedawn · **Posted:** Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:38 am

happens to all guys at some point in their lives

Jeep4me99 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:09 pm

a poor ground somewhere can cause that to happen as well. mine was acutally on the negative battery post. so it kept trying to lock...until it died.

Guest · **Posted:** Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:02 pm

beforedawn wrote:

happens to all guys at some point in their lives

I laughed so hard I sharted.

I'm not looking forward to that day

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:03 pm

yellowcoyote wrote:

I'm glad you post some of the warning signs of your battery going dead. I'm waiting for mine to go. I'm at 104K, in a 2002, and I'm still on the stock battery.

Any day now, I think... :roll:

Know what you mean yellowcoyote, my 04s at 107,000 plus with the stock battery, have a new red top on the way so when it does die, :shock:

$ 100 shipped couldn't beat the price so I thought why not :twisted:

scarletbegonias · **Posted:** Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:09 pm

Jeep4me99 wrote:

a poor ground somewhere can cause that to happen as well. mine was acutally on the negative battery post. so it kept trying to lock...until it died.

I just installed my handheld CB/cobra mag whip antenna a week or two ago which after the battery dying on me makes me wonder...how do you know if your CB is properly grounded?

corwyyn · **Posted:** Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:13 pm

I just replaced my battery today. I had purchased a Duralast from Autozone in Dec. of '06 and it's already crapped out. Luckily I was within the two-year free replacement window so it cost me zip, but I am seriously considering an Optima (red or yellow) then I can throw this one in my mother's '05 to replace the stock battery on it.

oldMountainMan · **Posted:** Sun Aug 03, 2008 12:40 pm

jsc7002 wrote:

lol no problem that same thing happened to me when i was at a lake in OK and it was just a sudden thing bc i had just started it and drove a little and then 5 min later i got back in and nothing! it was weird

Batteries usually just gradually get weaker, until they're so weak they won't start the engine any more, but sometimes they fail suddenly. I think something inside breaks, corrodes or burns out, and suddenly the battery has barely enough juice to light the dome light.

jaysus · **Posted:** Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:15 pm

yellocoyote wrote:

I'm glad you post some of the warning signs of your battery going dead. I'm waiting for mine to go. I'm at 104K, in a 2002, and I'm still on the stock battery.

Any day now, I think... :roll:

just replace it now...

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