Battery dead now Wrangler won't fire

Tradarcher

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Left my lights on today and ran the battery down. Tried to jump it and got it to turn over good but still would not fire. Could it be something as simple as the battery or could I have fried something else? To top it off the Jeep is in Rocky Mount and I got a ride back to Creedmoor with a co-worker.
 
You could've burnt a fuse when you conected the jumper cables. It's happened to me before.
 
marvilusone said:
You could've burnt a fuse when you conected the jumper cables. It's happened to me before.
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could have but i think thatd be more of a once in a million chances.
maybe check and see the voltage on the battery on a meter.
 
Battery was dead and appears to have lost a cell. The reason it turned over good and didn't start was because it was flooded. I would have never thought that an injected vehicle would be flooded but it was. After a new battery was put in it turned over a while and then finally fired. I could smell the strong smell of gas kinda like when a carbed vechicle is flooded.
I've got a new respect for jumper cables. Cheap ones are absolutely worthless. They heat up and never really give you a good enough charge to jump a vehicle. Fortunately, I have one good set.
 
Kevin Lawler said:
Battery was dead and appears to have lost a cell. The reason it turned over good and didn't start was because it was flooded. I would have never thought that an injected vehicle would be flooded but it was. After a new battery was put in it turned over a while and then finally fired. I could smell the strong smell of gas kinda like when a carbed vechicle is flooded.
I've got a new respect for jumper cables. Cheap ones are absolutely worthless. They heat up and never really give you a good enough charge to jump a vehicle. Fortunately, I have one good set.
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Ive seen EFI's flood, but only when they were really hi-performance, and just coming together tryin to get it fired.
 
If the battery was dead enough that NOTHING would work, the computer defaults back to 0° or below becasue there is no referance to compare to as it was lost when the power died.

THUS, when you tried to jump with the cheap cables, you were not getting enough juice to turn over the engine, fire the plugs and power the fuel pump as well, the fuel poured in with not enough pressure to atomize , injectors opened longer for cold start, engine turning over, not a hot enough spark to fire the overload of fuel. Flooded.......

Change your plugs and drive it for a good while ( RockyMount to Creedmore is fine) you may end up buying a cat or O2 sensors in the near future.
 
Sounds exactly like what happened. Having the cat and sensors go out would suck. The battery was so dead it only registered 10 volts. It is only a year old. I am charging it now. I hope I didn't lose a cell.
 
take it back if youve got warranty on it still, or go get it tested for dead cells
 
Th exact , and i mean EXACT same thing happened to me with my jeep a while back. All the words in the post are the same ones I heard then.
 
i mean EXACT... as in Deja' Vu..!!! I'm talkin' Twin Sista' Vista...!!!
 
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