Re: 4.7L not starting (showing off new battery)

From: Ethan Schwartz (ethan@ethanschwartz.com)
Date: Sat Oct 25 2003 - 21:29:58 EDT


Amen to that... never had to jump start myself, but I think I've dished
out at least 10 over the past couple of winters...

Mine has a 12V socket too which I use w/ a spotlight, comes in handy in
the woods or trying to fix something in the middle of the night :)

Bill Pitz wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:05:40 -0400, woodrufj@yahoo.com (Jayson
> Woodruff) wrote:
>
>
>>Yeah, it was the battery, I just couldn't imagine a battery being fine
>>on Saturday and So dead it won't idle on Sunday (all the while the
>>little green dot lit up). The dealer replaced the steering pump for me,
>>then wanted to charge $150 for a battery (bite me). So I swapped
>>batteries in thier parking lot (in front of all the people test driving
>>Dodges ;-))
>
>
> Mine pretty much died overnight, too. Perfectly fine when I got home
> one night... total crap the next morning. Buying a portable jumpstart
> unit has saved my a** a couple of times now -- more than made up for
> the $50 I paid for it.
>
> -Bill



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