AAA x2, new battery for the Solara
News ·Thursday September 13, 2012 @ 20:57 EDT (link)
Had to call AAA yesterday morning (dead battery); they charged it with a portable battery pack, but since there was no reason for it to be low (no lights left on or anything like that) I had my doubts about its long-term survival. I managed to start it to drive home from work, but barely—it was clearly Not Happy—the drive in isn't really long enough to charge it; and this morning it again wouldn't start. (I should say it wasn't actually dead; there was enough juice to turn on a few indicator lights and make a clicking sound.) So this time I bought a battery from the AAA guy—about $120 with a few forms of state extortion added in (obviously if it would hold a charge I didn't want to buy one, but as I said, I had little hope).
Both of the AAA guys said that Florida heat killed batteries—they had a couple pallets of dead ones each of the past few days. And maybe it was just time; it's been a couple years. Waiting on them made me a little late to work (around 1030) but I logged in remotely a little to make up for it.
