[A4] Dead Battery

[Richard Hurt]

Just got back from AutoZone and it was a bad cell, it had a charge but
wouldn't hold a load.  The great thing is that since I purchased it at
AutoZone (6 years ago!) it still had some guarantee left and I got a $100
replacement for $56.

Right now, I'm *very happy* with AutoZone!

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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Richard Hurt <rnhurt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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