MirandaRae

I was driving home tonight, and when I was about 4 blocks from home my radio cut off, I thought I hit something and tried to turn in back on. It gave me the message saying low battery.

I continue to drive home and in 4 blocks I see my cars battery indicator go completely to L. By the time I parked it wasn't even letting me put up the widows till I turned the car off.

Last time I was at ford getting my car services they said that the computer popped up with a message saying that the battery was faulty. After sitting there for 4 hours they then said they couldn't find a problem.

I wonder if this is related. What do you think. Ford should take car of my battery right?

My car only has 19,500 miles on it and is under 3 years old.

fosman77

I think it's bumper to bumper, So that should include the battery. It might be prorated.

mygt500

get the battery replaced under warranty...you have the message now and that means its faulty so go to the nearest stealership and get a new battery. If that battery dies again it might be the alternator and that would be replaced under warranty too!

Nuke

If the car was running and you weren't drawing more than the alternator could put out, then it sounds like an alternator problem. With the engine running, you're alternator should be quite capable of putting out the power to handle everything short of a few hundred watt aftermarket sound system with all your lights and AC turned on. Any low voltage indication with the engine running typically is the alternator unless the battery is acting as a dead short (at which point the alternator is trying to feed power into a black hole).

Xeno

yeah, try to get the battery replaced... especially since the stealership should have changed it when they noticed it was faulty when you had it serviced... this is totally on them, imo

Art161

First, get a new battery from the dealer at no cost under the warranty. Then have the alternator checked. The alternator might be bad, but then again it might be okay and was trying to charge a battery that would not take a charge. This can cause the rest of the electrical system to receive too little voltage to operate properly.

MirandaRae

thanks for your imput guys, im going to head on over to the dealership right now.

157dB

A bad battery can kill an alternator over time if the battery
is not replaced.

MirandaRae

Just got back, they said the alternator died, their giving me a new one.. It should hopefully be done by 6

zporta

yea i was about 2 say... sounds like the ALT... same thing happened 2 me driving my truck 2 college a few years back... luckily i was only 1 exit away from my grandparents house...