Dead Batteries???

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Scotto2323

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Anyone else have the random dead battery problem??? Battery just dies randomly usally when I don't drive it for like a day.

I read somewhere once before it is a problem with the abs drawing power when truck is no longer on.

Let me know what you guys know.
 

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yeah the batteries suck and the power amp deal on the cables that tell the truck how much to draw sucks too! mine did this a while back cause i had my radar detector plugged in and after about a day the battery would die! Hell the other day i got the bb tune, Justin was with me, we made a quick pit stop to do some configuring and the damn truck died at the gas station! haha embarrassing!
 

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You need to take it to a dealer and have the computer reflashed.

The allowable amount of mistakes in one line of code is 10. GM's quality control before their bankruptcy was less then stellar and they built a lot of junk. Not to be outdone, their updates are sometimes no better then the origional programs. My dad bought a new '07 Impala 2 years ago and when he took it in for service, the service manager told him that he had updated his computer as per the recall notice. Well my dad informed the service manager that he did not want his car updated. The service manager got smart with my dad and said , well we did it anyways.

The problem was that my dad drove almost 100 miles one way to buy this car and he drove another 100 miles one way to have it serviced and you guessed it - 2 days later when the computer crashed, he had to drive another 200 miles to go back and have the Power Train Control Module replaced.

My dad is 73 years old and does not put more then 3,000 miles total on his vehicle in a years time. So let's just say that he was deeply upset.

Rewind a few years before all this and I knew several people who had the same problem as you people were having and every one of them was due to the computer turning on something and then not turning it off. It wasn't the ABS - it had more to do with a shift motor and other things on the transmission and transfer case. When the PTCM fed too much power into those items, once the vehicle got 40,000 - 60,000 miles on it - guess what?
They died and the owners had to spend even more money to repair and replace everything that went bad.
 
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I'm not happy but I am gonna give the dealer a call tomorrow.

Does anyone know where to find a list of what is exactly covered under the 10 year 100k warranty?

Anyone recommend and extended? How much did you pay?
 

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Man, this just happened to me this morning. I was on duty at the firehouse yesterday so I drove my other car to the station and left the Yukon at home as I usually do. Then this morning when I tried to start it, no dice!
 

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Mine wouldn't start a few weekends ago and I was late to school. The battery was checked at an auto parts store and they determined it to be fine. Ever since then I haven't had a problem.
 

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Purchase an Optima (Yellow Top) and you won't have to worry again. The factory battery is a joke to have in an suv :fca5278d:
 
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Took Tahoe in to dealer today:

"Replaced battery checked for draw on battery ok only had 1ma showing tested battery showed good recharge charged battery ck for bullittens none found load tested showed weak retested now shows replace battery installed new battery"

Long and short, they said it was the battery. I tryed to confirm that there was no systems drawing when they should be off, they assured me no. So I guess we'll see.

You think GM told the dealers not to use commas in their report to save money on ink on the print outs and memory on their servers?lol
 

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I have an obs with a red top optima and the same hapends to me..but only when it gets to cold,my baby gets cold lol...
 

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