Ody Owners,
I was about to take the van out for a week-end drive and couldn't unlock it using the remote. Opened door manually and none of the electronic equipment would work and engine wouldn't start. So I say to myself, "Hmmm battery dead somehow?" I pop the hood and start to jump the battery w/ my other car and then the horn beeps like crazy and the light flash, so I back off there and think I better read the manual first. Couldn't find nuthing to help in the manual, so I call my dealership up and ask what I'm doing wrong. They have me insert the key in ignition and look for blinking light, but there is none so they offer to send a technician out to my house to look at the car. I said , wow, I'm glad I bought locally. So they send the tech out and he look at the battery and says' "dead battery".
We jump the car, and this time he tells me to turn of the horn by hitting the "unlock" on the remote transmiter. Van started, technician left, and owner felt grateful to the dealership ( Sam Linder's in Salinas,ca.)
and inept at not having handled a dead battery by himself!
I was surprised that out battery ran down just 3 months after I bot the van. WE've been using the van just about 1 or twice a week for the last 2 months driving about 5 miles back and forth. We haven't bothered to shut down the nav system, but I suspect the combination of an electron sucking nav unit and light useage not allowing the battery to fully charge gradually drained the battery. At least I hope thats what it is and not a faulty charging system. Any other ex nav owners drive their vans once or twice a week?
I was about to take the van out for a week-end drive and couldn't unlock it using the remote. Opened door manually and none of the electronic equipment would work and engine wouldn't start. So I say to myself, "Hmmm battery dead somehow?" I pop the hood and start to jump the battery w/ my other car and then the horn beeps like crazy and the light flash, so I back off there and think I better read the manual first. Couldn't find nuthing to help in the manual, so I call my dealership up and ask what I'm doing wrong. They have me insert the key in ignition and look for blinking light, but there is none so they offer to send a technician out to my house to look at the car. I said , wow, I'm glad I bought locally. So they send the tech out and he look at the battery and says' "dead battery".
We jump the car, and this time he tells me to turn of the horn by hitting the "unlock" on the remote transmiter. Van started, technician left, and owner felt grateful to the dealership ( Sam Linder's in Salinas,ca.)
and inept at not having handled a dead battery by himself!
I was surprised that out battery ran down just 3 months after I bot the van. WE've been using the van just about 1 or twice a week for the last 2 months driving about 5 miles back and forth. We haven't bothered to shut down the nav system, but I suspect the combination of an electron sucking nav unit and light useage not allowing the battery to fully charge gradually drained the battery. At least I hope thats what it is and not a faulty charging system. Any other ex nav owners drive their vans once or twice a week?