I noticed that too. My Ford Probe batery died a year and a half after we
purchased it in 94. I could not believe that it was the battery. One day it
worked fine the next, dead. The odd thing is that the lights light and
everything but the car wouldn't even crank. I wonder if the computers in
modern cars prevent the ignition from working if the battery falls below a
treshhold level. I do not recall seeing a modern car struggle to start with
a weak battery like the old ones do. They either go or don't.
Chris Reichle
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From: mgs-owner
To: jensen-cars
Cc: mgs
Subject: dead batteries
Date: Monday, March 03, 1997 10:16PM
In one of those delicious ironies, I had to jump start my Grand Cherokee
with my Interceptor today (I'm sure I could hear the Jensen snickering).
While I was doing so, I pondered the way batteries just go DEAD. Seeming
fine one minute, dead the next. Am I remembering correctly that in the old
days a battery seemed to go out more gradually? Is it the load demand of
modern cars? Battery techonolgy? Generator vs. alternator? Brain cells
playing tricks on my 41 yearold memory?
Michael, New Bern, NC
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