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Old 03-05-2012, 10:30 AM
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Default Re: Recent fix

Originally Posted by MikeR
guys, just because you have lights and radio does not mean the battery is good..... it needs to be tested under load to find out if it is bad or not.... the lights and radio take very little power to work... cranking the engine to start takes a HEALTHY batter putting out at least 12V and enough amps.... there have been two (or three) recent posts of people that couldn't get the car to start and thought they had a good battery only to replace it and everything was fine..... get your battery tested....
Starting to sound like they aren't jumper cable friendly either! Reading up on abs/esp failure I have to wonder if my whitetop might not be the issue.. per the manual if it doesn't see 12v it has fits..(okay not exactly per manual).. just wonder if 11.8 volts would crank and "act" just fine from the drivers seat. Was thinking hook up the tahoe to jumper cables for testing before replacing the battery but now???