My car is almost 6 years old and still has the original battery.
Yesterday I clicked the remote start to get my car cooling down and it tried to start but sounded weak and didn’t. My first thought was that the battery didn’t have enough power but do you think something else could’ve caused the remote start to not work? It started just fine when I turned it on from inside of the car but I drove straight to AutoZone anyway.
The guy that came out to check the charge had a really hard time finding a place to connect the negative, but he finally got it grounded and was able to get a reading. I’m not sure I trust his reading because he said the battery was almost completely dead and he was surprised it started to drive there. He said they could sell me a battery but they won’t install it because of how much stuff you have to take off of the Pilot to be able to fully access the battery, and that he could give me a jump to get home. I said I would just try starting it first and he was surprised that it worked and I didn’t need a jump.
Should I trust his reading and get a new battery right away, take it somewhere else to get it checked, or do you think something unrelated to the battery is why the remote start didn’t work?
Yesterday I clicked the remote start to get my car cooling down and it tried to start but sounded weak and didn’t. My first thought was that the battery didn’t have enough power but do you think something else could’ve caused the remote start to not work? It started just fine when I turned it on from inside of the car but I drove straight to AutoZone anyway.
The guy that came out to check the charge had a really hard time finding a place to connect the negative, but he finally got it grounded and was able to get a reading. I’m not sure I trust his reading because he said the battery was almost completely dead and he was surprised it started to drive there. He said they could sell me a battery but they won’t install it because of how much stuff you have to take off of the Pilot to be able to fully access the battery, and that he could give me a jump to get home. I said I would just try starting it first and he was surprised that it worked and I didn’t need a jump.
Should I trust his reading and get a new battery right away, take it somewhere else to get it checked, or do you think something unrelated to the battery is why the remote start didn’t work?