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Old 01-14-2009, 09:35 AM
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Location: Howard Co MD
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2008 ML550 Battery issues

My wife had her second incident of a dead battery yesterday. This is a one year plus 2 week old vehicle, always garage parked. I think it has around 10K miles.
First incident maybe 4 months ago, she called road service. The guy who came jump started the car, and told her she "left the radio on". Uh, excuse me genius, I believe the radio turns off with the ignition.

More recently, the vehicle locked itself while her keyless go key was sitting in the car. Luckily she was home at the time, and simply unlocked with her spare key. There was also an occurrence where the command screen & switch lights would not come on.

I've read that electrical gremlins are somewhat common, so we had not been too concerned.
Service A was done 2 weeks ago, and we told the SA about the problems. They "updated software" and supposedly ran some diagnostics, and told us everything was fine.

Yesterday afternoon, the vehicle was completely dead. A low volume beeper was sounding inside the vehicle, but nothing else worked at all. We called a tow company refered by the dealer, and they winched it up on a rollback & took it to Herb Gordon in Silver Spring around 6:00 pm last night.

In this day & age, how hard can it be to find where the cause of a current drain is?
Should I push for new batteries?
Any suggestions appreciated.

David in MD
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