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Old Feb 28, 2003 | 12:17 PM
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real strange

Really need your help guys.
I have a 92GXE Max 100,000mi.
My wife has a 93SE Max 64,000mi.
We park em both in underground garage.
Today I went down to garage and BOTH cars have discharged battery.
Not even enough to turn over engines.
We never had any battery difficulty at all on either car.
Now they are both discharged at same time.
Can't friggin believe it because I was gonna boost the first discovered dead with the other car - then the big suprise.
Please help with any idea of what may have happened.
Thanks.
Old Feb 28, 2003 | 12:22 PM
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Re: real strange

Originally posted by sharky
Really need your help guys.
I have a 92GXE Max 100,000mi.
My wife has a 93SE Max 64,000mi.
We park em both in underground garage.
Today I went down to garage and BOTH cars have discharged battery.
Not even enough to turn over engines.
We never had any battery difficulty at all on either car.
Now they are both discharged at same time.
Can't friggin believe it because I was gonna boost the first discovered dead with the other car - then the big suprise.
Please help with any idea of what may have happened.
Thanks.

did u buy both batterys @ da same time and same place???
Old Feb 28, 2003 | 12:31 PM
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nope. different batteries. different times.
Old Feb 28, 2003 | 02:09 PM
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Originally posted by sharky
nope. different batteries. different times.
thats a really really weird thing. Do you both have the same components in the cars, ie. an amplifier of same type wired the same way? Or to keep it open, what similarities are there with each car in terms of add-ons? It's either that or someone you know is playing a prank. Other thing is the alarms might have gone off and run the battery down if the intruder (if there was one) kept triggering them. at least thats what I think looking at it from the "there has got to be a reason" point of view. The other might be something the Man upstairs did to help you...like prevent an accident or sumpth (yeah yeah, I'm a priest!)
Old Feb 28, 2003 | 06:10 PM
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no add ons. just stock radios. Alarms didn't go off or I would have heard about that from the building super. lol. Both batteries are down the same way. just enuff power to dimly light the headlights but not enough to run starter. Maybe was god sent to prevent something is about the best explanation I heard yet. lol. Ran it past the dealer and he says new betteries are so many dollars. lol. No real explanation of how this cud happen. Really freaked out. Hoods were down with no evidence of tampering.Damn - if I wanted this sort of prob I wuda bought a Fords. Oh well. stranger things have happened I guess.
Old Feb 28, 2003 | 08:24 PM
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Have you checked the fluids??? Might be low, unless it's a sealed type battery.













Or you can always go with this explanation.




It was the battery gnomes.
Old Feb 28, 2003 | 11:02 PM
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guys from the honda forum sabtoged you, trying to extract revenge
Old Mar 1, 2003 | 05:27 AM
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That IS weird.... and lophix is going along the right avenue. I'd look at any similarities as far as accessories and such. Another thing to look at is, if a dome light was on in the cars. Who drove the cars last, you or your wife? IF one of you drove both cars last before the other one had a change to get in/use the car, you might want to look at what you (or her) did prior to leaving the car, to see if there might be a similarity there. Perhaps one person may get out of the car and turn on the dome light before getting out. Or maybe one of you might get out of the car an not shut the door all the way.

Here's another idea (that might not apply to where you live): maybe if the two cars' block heaters were plugged into the same outlet, and the outlet itself may be defective to the point that it causes some kind of drain on the system.

I'm just grasping at straws here, but that might be somewhere to start, as two entirely separate cars normally shoudn't display the SAME problem at the same time unless there's some connecting factor between the two.

Or, maybe like DLB said, it WAS the battery gnomes...
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