QWKsilvr808
02-11-2002, 12:43 PM
Anyway, I was leaving the office on my lunch break friday, got in my car, turn the key, and *click-click-click-click* but the engine wouldn't turn!!! I was pissed! At first I thought of the starter solenoid, since I'd run into that problem with my CRX. I was hoping it'd start later, so at 5 when I finished work I tried again. Same thing. I had 2 of our student workers push the car and I kick started it and drove it home, and parked it on the incline in front of my house. Packed up all my shyt, let the car roll down the hill again, kick started it to get it to fire up, drove out to town, and let my uncle do a run-down of the electrical/charging system. After load-testing the battery we found out that there was absolutely no cranking amperage in it at all, the battery was completely and utterly dead, even recharging it overnight didn't do anything because the battery simply wouldn't hold a charge.
So anyway, I was totally pissed. It's Friday and the service department is closed for the weekend so I have noone to bitch at. I was scheduled to drop my car off Sunday night to have it looked at Monday morning for the tensioner prob, but now the car doesn't even start. How convenient. I'm waiting to see this morning if someone from Toyota City (my dealership in Honolulu) is gonna call me and say well, your battery is dead because of your shift lite and gauges, at which point I'm gonna totally snap. The battery still registers full on the battery indicator, and when hooked up to a voltmeter it has 12V, but under load (like cranking the engine) there is zero amperage, so somewhere in it there's a dead cell - in otherwords, a complete malfunction, not due to the battery being drained by the stereo, etc.
Have any of you run into problems with the factory battery? I expect it to last at least the 3 years of the basic warranty without drama...
** UPDATE: As I was typing this my dealership just called to tell me that they found the battery to indeed be malfunctioning, so they're gonna replace it under my basic warranty coverage, no problem. What a relief!
So anyway, I was totally pissed. It's Friday and the service department is closed for the weekend so I have noone to bitch at. I was scheduled to drop my car off Sunday night to have it looked at Monday morning for the tensioner prob, but now the car doesn't even start. How convenient. I'm waiting to see this morning if someone from Toyota City (my dealership in Honolulu) is gonna call me and say well, your battery is dead because of your shift lite and gauges, at which point I'm gonna totally snap. The battery still registers full on the battery indicator, and when hooked up to a voltmeter it has 12V, but under load (like cranking the engine) there is zero amperage, so somewhere in it there's a dead cell - in otherwords, a complete malfunction, not due to the battery being drained by the stereo, etc.
Have any of you run into problems with the factory battery? I expect it to last at least the 3 years of the basic warranty without drama...
** UPDATE: As I was typing this my dealership just called to tell me that they found the battery to indeed be malfunctioning, so they're gonna replace it under my basic warranty coverage, no problem. What a relief!