I have a 2015 RTV I bought new. Two of them actually. The battery went bad a few months ago on one that we use several times a week and I replaced it. Figured it was about time being seven years old.
The second UTV I don’t use as often as it is kept at a remote property one hour away. The battery on it started getting weak a year ago and every time I use it I have to jump start it. I use it so infrequently I just have lived with this. One time we jump started it and ran it for about four hours without turning it off and tried to restart and it wouldn’t. This has been repeated maybe 5-10 times - jumpstart it, use it, try to restart and it won’t.
Anyway today I jump started the machine and ran it for maybe thirty minutes without shutting it off and loaded it on a trailer to bring home so I could replace the battery, change the oil, etc. i drive an hour home and when I got here I tried starting and the machine fired right up. It was cranking over fast. The battery is seven years old I am sure it needs replacing but how did this happen? I checked the connections a while back and they are clean, good, and tight. How does a battery refuse to take a charge ten times in a row and then all of a sudden does?
The second UTV I don’t use as often as it is kept at a remote property one hour away. The battery on it started getting weak a year ago and every time I use it I have to jump start it. I use it so infrequently I just have lived with this. One time we jump started it and ran it for about four hours without turning it off and tried to restart and it wouldn’t. This has been repeated maybe 5-10 times - jumpstart it, use it, try to restart and it won’t.
Anyway today I jump started the machine and ran it for maybe thirty minutes without shutting it off and loaded it on a trailer to bring home so I could replace the battery, change the oil, etc. i drive an hour home and when I got here I tried starting and the machine fired right up. It was cranking over fast. The battery is seven years old I am sure it needs replacing but how did this happen? I checked the connections a while back and they are clean, good, and tight. How does a battery refuse to take a charge ten times in a row and then all of a sudden does?