Anyone had a problem of the battery dying when leaving the radio on while...

[hiroprotagonist2005]

getting gas?

I know ive done it a million times; turn the radio on while filling up and i've never had a problem before.

This time i basically killed the battery, the lights flickered on and off and made this clicking sound that progressively got weaker and weaker as i attempted to turn off and turn on the car.

i called nissan roadside, they showed up in 20 mins and jumped the battery and it started fine. He asked me if i had the car on while pumping gas and i told him i did, he said it can cause the ignition to short.

im no expert that didnt make sense to me, either way something happened and the jump fixed it, ive been able to turn it off and on with no problems since.

[juanram007]

Wow, that sounds really wierd.

[DAAN.]

My battery was a lemon ... so it had similar problems

Ask the dealership to test it

[dangeris]

My car did the same thing..clicking and all that other crap but then again, i was blasting the radio and my park lights were on as well as my underbody lights and yes, I was at Hot Import Nights...kinda makes sense why my battery almost drained. Anyway going to buy a red top Optima this winter so I won't have this problem again

[Beak]

with your mods... might as well go ahead and go for the yellow top optima... i love that battery

[rjdmmfl1]

Optima batteries are not what they were 5 years ago... new owner took over.. decided to start using recycled parts in the betteris to save money... a LOT of owners started having power cells die in their supposedly brand new yellow top Optimas... i used to swear by Optima also... but then i saw the light...

i highly suggest getting a Kinetik HC 1800 to replace the factory battery...

[rjdmmfl1]

getting gas?

I know ive done it a million times; turn the radio on while filling up and i've never had a problem before.

This time i basically killed the battery, the lights flickered on and off and made this clicking sound that progressively got weaker and weaker as i attempted to turn off and turn on the car.

i called nissan roadside, they showed up in 20 mins and jumped the battery and it started fine. He asked me if i had the car on while pumping gas and i told him i did, he said it can cause the ignition to short.

im no expert that didnt make sense to me, either way something happened and the jump fixed it, ive been able to turn it off and on with no problems since.

you should NEVER leave the car running off the battery to listen to the radio at the gas station if ur just using the factory battery... when you do that, although you didn't notice it at the time... you were draining the battery little by little each time you do then... factory batteries were NOT designed to be drained like this, thus one day, out of the blue, you'll have the issue you just described.... this is why they designed deep cycle batteries, to do just that... I'm running three batteries in my car due to all of my audio/video stuff, and if i leave ALL of my monitors on, even i will have the same issue... so now I only leave 4 on at a time

[Beak]

thanks for the tip.... ill keep that on in mind if and when i have problems with the yellow top. so far... no problems, the optima has worked just like my previous yellow tops. i guess we will see what happens with this one

[rjdmmfl1]

thanks for the tip.... ill keep that on in mind if and when i have problems with the yellow top. so far... no problems, the optima has worked just like my previous yellow tops. i guess we will see what happens with this one

http://answers.yahoo.com/quest...hefSH

read first review:

http://www.amazon.com/Kinetik-...UDEQ6

if yours is working.. keep it... you probably got one of the good ones... but my local audio shop had to stop carryin optima because customers were returning with dead power cells... but when you get a good one, they are indeed a GREAT battery....

[Beak]

gosh... its sad when a GREAT company changes shot callers and the co goes down the drain(no pun intended) lol