{"id":60617,"date":"2020-08-01T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T23:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=60617"},"modified":"2020-08-01T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T23:09:19","slug":"battery-is-good-no-electrical-to-the-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2020\/08\/battery-is-good-no-electrical-to-the-vehicle","title":{"rendered":"Battery is good, no electrical to the vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2015 Dodge Grand Caravan <br \/>Battery is about 6 weeks old. Twice now I have gone out to start the vehicle and it\u2019s dead. Completely dead. Key fob won\u2019t unlock doors. Interior lights don\u2019t come on when you open the door. Nothing. I charged the battery, <br \/>cleaned the lead\/connectors, and then changed the battery terminals (they were old and didn\u2019t work the greatest anyway) after it happened the first time. Everything worked fine for about a week and then it did it again. <br \/>Completely dead. Battery tested good. Car parts store swapped out the battery just to make sure that wasn\u2019t the issue and it made no difference. Still dead. Thoughts or suggestions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This sounds like a parasitic draw. Could be as simple as the glove box light or dome light not going out. Also a dime in the cigar lighter will do it or even a gum wrapper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/04\/battery-drain-chevy-silverado\">Similar Questions Involving Parasitic Draw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 Dodge Grand Caravan Battery is about 6 weeks old. Twice now I have gone out to start the vehicle and it\u2019s dead. Completely dead. Key fob won\u2019t unlock doors. Interior lights don\u2019t come on when you open the door. Nothing. I charged the battery, cleaned the lead\/connectors, and then changed the battery terminals (they&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2020\/08\/battery-is-good-no-electrical-to-the-vehicle\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Battery is good, no electrical to the vehicle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15837,"featured_media":33410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-dodge"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.0 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Battery is good, no electrical to the vehicle - FreeAutoMechanic Advice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2020\/08\/battery-is-good-no-electrical-to-the-vehicle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Battery is good, no electrical to the vehicle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"2015 Dodge Grand Caravan Battery is about 6 weeks old. 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