Is this Fuse #42? Or another fuse? Thanks!
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Off topic but I’m ordering a 23 Willys
This is a problem that exists mostly in the 2018 models due to it being fixed with a software update in the later year models.
An engineer did a calculation that in heavy stop/start traffic, using only the main battery, the main battery could drop below 50% charge. Discharging a LA below 50% significantly reduces battery life. The secondary battery cure is far worse than the 1/10th of 1% who have the primary battery fail prematurely because of discharging in heavy traffic below 50%. At 50% battery and temperature above 40 degrees, there's plenty of power to start.
Wrong. Replace the main battery and pull the F42 fuse
Major overkill. Get a good replacement, pull F42, that's all you need.Genesis Offorad dual battery kit will take care of that.
I said replace the battery. Have you read about pulling F42, it's not a hack, it's a HUGE improvement.
Not the JL's with eTorque. They have a bank of batteries underneath the jeep.
Living in FL, I just let the giant hot Sky-Orange of death take care of my battery level woes.
Hi Everyone. So after 27 years of driving on the beach I had my first catastrophe. We were out on the sand yesterday about 1 mile out from the parking lot on Smith Point Outer Beach. My wife's cousin had never driven on the beach before, so I let him take the wheel. He wasn't used to the friction of driving on sand and undercompensated with the clutch and stalled. No big deal right? Well, the Jeep wouldn't restart. Very strange since the Jeep had just been driving for 30 minutes straight.
At first we had power to the dash and a very weak crank. We tried jumper cables, a jumper power-pack, nothing worked. After a few whines from the vehicle, the Jeep stopped responding completely. At that point the dash shut off completely. Luckily we had 10-15 people offer to help. After almost 2 hours we got it winched to turn around and thanks to the kindness of strangers, I was able to have someone tow-rope me back to the parking lot. I then got it towed back to my house with a real tow truck. Obviously this was not cheap but thankfully we got it off the sand which would have been a much more expensive tow.
The weird part is that once we got the Jeep back to my house, we set up a trickle-charger, which is reading that the battery is fully charged! Still no lights on dash, pushing the start button does absolutely nothing. I was hoping to get it at least juiced up enough to close the windows before it rains tonight
I need everyone's advice. Both the main battery and auxiliary battery are original (vehicle purchased in December of 2018 and currently 24k miles). So they might be dead. But why would the trickle charger read full? And why won't it accept a jump? Is there some sort of shut-down mode the Jeep goes into when the battery dies that I need to get out of? I appreciate anyone's help!
Photos and video (including my wife laughing at me) attached below. Link is Youtube
Click this link for my Tow Video
Not sure what's worse the battery issue or the wife, but I've had both. Luckily there is the Genesis dual battery kit. After I had my 2019 jumped by the tow driver, it then read it was fine after 30 minutes of driving. I had read about the issue/Genesis before and thought if it happened again I might switch. Next day same bs, won't start so I ordered the kit and two new batteries they recommend. Two days and a little more than two hours problem solved. Now it is a real pain if you have to even get to, not to mention replace, that aux battery. A bit more effort to put the kit in, but now much better output and the both batteries are easily accessible. Note it is not a cheap route: Kit and batteries will run $1,300 (including tax, shipping)Hi Everyone. So after 27 years of driving on the beach I had my first catastrophe. We were out on the sand yesterday about 1 mile out from the parking lot on Smith Point Outer Beach. My wife's cousin had never driven on the beach before, so I let him take the wheel. He wasn't used to the friction of driving on sand and undercompensated with the clutch and stalled. No big deal right? Well, the Jeep wouldn't restart. Very strange since the Jeep had just been driving for 30 minutes straight.
At first we had power to the dash and a very weak crank. We tried jumper cables, a jumper power-pack, nothing worked. After a few whines from the vehicle, the Jeep stopped responding completely. At that point the dash shut off completely. Luckily we had 10-15 people offer to help. After almost 2 hours we got it winched to turn around and thanks to the kindness of strangers, I was able to have someone tow-rope me back to the parking lot. I then got it towed back to my house with a real tow truck. Obviously this was not cheap but thankfully we got it off the sand which would have been a much more expensive tow.
The weird part is that once we got the Jeep back to my house, we set up a trickle-charger, which is reading that the battery is fully charged! Still no lights on dash, pushing the start button does absolutely nothing. I was hoping to get it at least juiced up enough to close the windows before it rains tonight
I need everyone's advice. Both the main battery and auxiliary battery are original (vehicle purchased in December of 2018 and currently 24k miles). So they might be dead. But why would the trickle charger read full? And why won't it accept a jump? Is there some sort of shut-down mode the Jeep goes into when the battery dies that I need to get out of? I appreciate anyone's help!
Photos and video (including my wife laughing at me) attached below. Link is Youtube
Click this link for my Tow Video
That might be a reasonable option if you're a heavy user of ESS, but for the 99.9% who hate ESS, it's a ridiculous waste of money. Just replace the primary battery with a premium battery and pull the F42 fuse. Buy the way, I'm the .1% who likes ESS. My wife gets mad when it's a perfect 80 degrees out and I see a stop light so a furiously hit the drivers side temperate up switch to get it to 80 degrees so ESS works. She always says, why the hell are you turning up the heat? I respond, it's fun to see ESS work. Even a heavy ESS user will never get their $1000 back in fuel savings by the fractions of a penny ESS saves.
Plus a PITA installation. Even I, the only person who likes ESS, doesn't use it enough to justify $1,300. Why in the world would you need dual batteries if you weren't a heavy user of ESS. Even those who don't have a Tazer to eliminate it have a good reminder to hit the ESS off switch the first time it comes on. After that, the rest of the trip isn't loading the remaining battery.
A battery tender does nothing for a properly functioning electrical system unless you're gone for extended periods. Have you load tested your batteries? Just because it starts doesn't mean the batteries don't need to be replaced. 2018 batteries are loudly ticking time bombs. BTW, my neighbor hasn't changed his oil since 2018 and he has the same assertion, running strong.
Murphy was the chief engineer on the ESS, clutch, steering, cooling on the 2.0 turbo, paint on the hinges, and ...? I'm forgetting a few other areas where he was chief engineer.
