When the battery goes, it goes....

[hinchcliffe]

Driving the XK this weekend she started slow, so I thought to myself, OK, Battery soon, looked original. Wife was driving tuesday for work. Shut it off in a parking lot then when she tried to starty back up, nothing. Then starting getting wacky messages on the display. No clicking or anything. Ran over with a truck and tried jumping it, finally started to at least click. Grabbed a battery at sears (closest place) and started right up. Seems like the battery just dropped out. 5-1/2 years on an original battery not so bad.

[cico7]

I would say that is not surprising. Many posts on batteries dying at 5yr or 50,000 miles or there abouts.

[Matt]

Yup... I always replace my batteries around the 5 year mark. I don't like waiting for them to fail.

[CmmdrDan]

Same thing happened to me. But I was sitting on the beach. It started there and lasted another week and a half!

[Chapman89]

I had no warning with mine either. I went to campus for class and came back about 2 hours later to a completely dead vehicle!

[pjmjr508]

mine is coming up on 5 years, sounds like time for a yellow top one