Drove this morning to the dog park. Was thinking that at 117K this car has been super reliable..............Come out of the park and the key fob does not function. WTH? fob battery? Pop off my lock cover and open lock with key. Open door and there are no sounds no lights whatsoever! Insert key, no change turn key and no change. seemingly no voltage getting to electrical system. checked terminal connections and under hood fuse box, no issues.

Had to walk dog home at this point and leave car for later

I have never had a battery just completely fail to 0 voltage output. I expect some light, buzz or something faint............nothing.

Will attempt a jump later.

Any ideas?

 

I just remembered that when I was pulling into the lot that my power window was going up much slower than normal...............that was a little strange.

 

Failing alternator or battery or maybe you left a light on or something?

 

jumping got me lights but wouldnt fire. Knew it must be an internal short in battery. full refund at Costco for 27 months of use. Dropped in new battery and all is perfect again!

This car is very hard on batteries

 

Probably just a bad battery. Our '04 has only had the original and one replacement in 12 years.

 

I had an OEM battery completely die on me in my 04 TL. Very similar to you described. Absolutely nothing worked - like someone had removed the battery. Replaced under warranty and good to go.

 

A friend of mine had similar symptoms on an '09 Impreza. It took prolonged charging (30-45 minutes) to give the car enough juice to jump.

 

Yeah two plates likely shorted to each other

 

Actually this just happened to me on the 8th. Was taking car to the dealer for a ball joint under warranty and when I went to start it to leave my house, it was completely dead. Then when I tried to jump it, the alarm would go off as soon as I touched the leads to the battery. After figuring that issue out, I went and bought a battery and installed it and it has been fine ever since.

 

Glad it's working again!

 

Now the only remaining issue is the XM button is non responsive. no XM or iSimple now.

 

undo the battery again for 20-30 mins and hopefully that'll reset it.

 

Had to pull the iSimple device and take it apart to do a hard reset.
re loaded my navi hack and all is back to normal..........