Topic: Dead Battery
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Old 05-07-2008, 04:43 PM   #13 (permalink)
wadesalot
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Date registered: Aug 2007
Vehicle: 2008 ML 320CDI
Location: Gray, TN
Posts: 36
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Originally Posted by CJzBenz View Post
Maybe somebody has more info, but I was under the impression that there was a battery voltage monitor on these cars. If the battery got too low to start the car it would shut down everything to leave enough power to start. Perhaps that is only using the Residual Heat and Ventilation on the Climate Control.
Not so in my experience. On the first occasion there was enough juice to make the started click, but the second time it was TOTALLY dead.....no indication of enough voltage to do anything.
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