Champ53
8/1/2006 1:51:33 PM
I’ve encountered my first (and hopefully last) problem with our new H3. So far, this problem has my servicing dealer stumped.
The problem is, periodically, usually while stopped at a red light, I get the “Battery” warning on the DIC which stays on for appox 20 sec. and goes out. If I pop it into park or neutral and rev the engine slightly the DIC “Battery” warning will immediately go out. I’ve never gotten the DIC warning while the truck is in motion only at idle.
This has happened approx 2-dozen times in a little over 1200 miles of normal driving. I’ve driven 30-40 miles over a 2-3 day period betweens occurrences and, then I've had it happen 3 times in 30 miles. Understand that this not the start-up test that I’m talking about.
My dealer checked the charging sys and battery and all in normal. And of course the tech has never gotten the warning during his test drives!
Although, after on of the test drives it did throw a code which indicated the PCM was faulty which was replaced supposedly fixing my problem. But before I could drive it off of the dealer’s lot, I got the DIC “Battery” warning!!!!
So, has anyone else experienced such a problem, or am I just, “lucky”?
TIA,
Jules
Fireman
8/1/2006 3:32:08 PM
I would have them swap out the battery. It's very likely that the batt could just be bad. Sometimes a battery with a bad cel will still show up on a test as being good. I had one checked at Auto Zone once and they said it was OK. I went home, and used my cell tester, and found either one or two cells totally dead, this was just after I trickle charged it the day before. The point being, don't trust someone sayng the batt is good, unless each cell is tested. Since you have a closed batt, it will be better off to just get them to replace it if they will. It might save them, and you a lot of trouble. If it doesn't fix it, then go from there. At least it will eliminate the poss of a bad batt.
