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mate the main battery should have been a yellow top if not somewhere along the line you have been done out of a good battery with the work vehicles we look at 2-3 year life on a battery but these are emergency vehicles so we need them to start the standard optima should last well over this and my 07 jk hasnt had an issue could it be a short from the foglights if they whernt working and now are and now your battery is dieing could it be something the stealer did to it??????????
Tiny as far as I am aware it was only the diesels that got the yellow tops as my Petrol 08 model comes with the same black top battery as has been mentioned.
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Just called the service dept...
New batt will be in tomorrow and they will fit it up.
No probs they are going to check the fuse bos module they replaced 2 weeks ago as well
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was about to say that it sounds like the battery had been shorted out.... Pretty hard to do with out blowing a main fuse, but not impossible - if its done via a low current circuit....

The 'black top' battery - are they a gell cell or lead acid?
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Tiny as far as I am aware it was only the diesels that got the yellow tops as my Petrol 08 model comes with the same black top battery as has been mentioned.
sorry my mistake i assumed they would have used the same ones on both
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sorry my mistake i assumed they would have used the same ones on both
Tiny since when does anything Jeep does make sense?? Its obviously a cost saving measure as the Diesel requires a better battery to start it
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Tiny since when does anything Jeep does make sense?? Its obviously a cost saving measure as the Diesel requires a better battery to start it
the diesel runs an 850cla gel deep cycle battery, and a 180 amp alternator which can run a winch directly off the alternator output. is a totally upgraded system compared to the petrol. built for hard work.
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New batt fitted today (well almost) Dealer has to order one in so they gave me one out of a stock vehicle for now.
Also we discussed general battery failure and I was told that the yellow tops have failed on a regular basis.
Interestingly other jeeps like Cherokees and so on, have battery sensors fitted.
This stops them overcharging by sensing the heat factor at the base of the battery.
For some reason the JK 07 model does not have a sensor and a lot of yellow tops have warped, bloated and failed due to the excessive heat and continuous charging.
Some batteries will handle this better than others. Jeep are aware this may be an issue.
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