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Bad Battery? 2014 Enclave

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#1 ·
2014 enclave. I believe it's the original battery. At least I have never changed it in the 5 years I have owned it. we drove it on a long trip Saturday no issues. it sat all day Sunday. this morning wife went to start it and got all sorts of error messages on the dashboard, didn't start, just one click. traction control messages, and a few others. radio came on and it wouldn't shut off either. she opened the door, and the radio was still on - so she reattempted another start and this time the radio shut off when door was opened.

sounds like a ground issue or bad battery. what are your thoughts? I plan on taking battery out tonight and having it tested.

thank you
 
#5 ·
My first job while still in high school was for an old farmer. He showed me a trick for moving a battery. Tie a small loop in one end of a piece of string slightly larger than a battery terminal, then moving about a foot down the string tie another loop again slightly larger than the battery terminal force both loops down over each terminal one loop on the positive and one loop on the negative.

The foot of string between the loops is now a handle. Obviously you want a somewhat heavier string, being a farmer he used baler twine because farmers have lots of that around. I’ve used that trick on several handle less batteries over the years.