[A4] Dead Battery

[Richard Hurt]

Wow, my battery died like I've never seen it before.

Everything has been fine and dandy, no slow starting, no weird power
problems, nothing wrong at all.  So I stopped on the way to work this
morning to get a soda and when I come out to the car and turn the key
everything goes black.  No dash lights.  No dome light.  No nothing.  Almost
like the battery had been removed from the car when I went into the store.
:)  The weird thing is that the after a minute stuff started to come back to
life.  The dome light sorta works again, the dash lights try to come back,
but there's not enough juice to turn the starter.  I suspect the battery and
get a jump and head off to AutoZone, and stall the car half way there.  I've
been driving a stick for 20 years and can count on one hand the number of
times I've stalled a car, but apparently nerves make this type of thing more
common.  Grrrr....

Anyway, does anyone know why a battery would go completely gone and then
slowly crawl back to life?  My volt meter is reading good (15-17volts) and
the car ran great after I got it started.  This hit me completely by
surprise and there was no warning of a bad battery at all.

1998 A4 Q Sport
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