I've got a 97 Dakota and mine went south at 40000 miles. Could not figure
it out, but had the same problem happen on my 97 LHS. Just assumed
batteries were crap from the get go. Went and got a Duralast battery from
auto zone (3 year free replacement and then 5 fear prorate after that).
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Tom <tigers@bserv.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Battery died on me...
> At 12:49 AM 9/10/99 EDT, you wrote:
> >I have a 98 Dakota with a 318/5spd/power everything and the only
> >other thing i have wired in is a jacobs ignition..the truck has
> >45,000 miles on it..Well tonight the battery went south on it..
> > <snip> anyone have a battery go bad this early? Paul
>
> Bought mine in Feb. '97. Only time battery went south was this
> (July) summer. Turned out battery was not being charged because
> a fuse in the PDC under the hood was faulty. The fuse did not burn
> out...connector just fell apart almost like a bad soldering job.
> Put a charge on it and everything is aok since.
>
> Bob, Burlington, Ontario
> '97 FR CC NSV Sport, 5.2L, 3.55 SG, auto.
>
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