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Woke up yesterday, car wouldn't start, 2016 Civic. Indicators/Interior come on but only gives Ebrake error. Probably battery so get neighbor to jump me, kicks right on. Drive over to autozone, battery tester says its good but it had been running for about 10 minutes at that point. Drive 45 minutes at highway speed then after running errands while it sits for 2 hours and it fails to start again the first time but it barely starts when I try a second. Then of course this morning it wont start again but isn't giving Ebrake error, all the interior stuff comes up but it just turns a few times and stops. Battery is probably a little over 3 years.

So question is, should I take it to autozone and assume their tester had a false positive and buy a new battery, or bite the bullet and take it to dealership to see if something is draining the battery?
 
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Fogel said:
Woke up yesterday, car wouldn't start, 2016 Civic. Indicators/Interior come on but only gives Ebrake error. Probably battery so get neighbor to jump me, kicks right on. Drive over to autozone, battery tester says its good but it had been running for about 10 minutes at that point. Drive 45 minutes at highway speed then after running errands while it sits for 2 hours and it fails to start again the first time but it barely starts when I try a second. Then of course this morning it wont start again but isn't giving Ebrake error, all the interior stuff comes up but it just turns a few times and stops. Battery is probably a little over 3 years.

So question is, should I take it to autozone and assume their tester had a false positive and buy a new battery, or bite the bullet and take it to dealership to see if something is draining the battery?
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You could also have them scan the codes at AutoZone just to see if anything comes up.

If I remember correctly, a friend of mine had a slightly older civic than yours, and it had a similar issue where he was constantly having to replace the battery. We ended up finding out that certain years of civics had electrical issues where they were continuously draining the battery. There were a few different items that could cause it, but it was never an exact item. Supposedly you just had to pull fuses for certain things like the stereo. Then the idea was, you would replace them one by one, and eventually you would find the one that drains the battery.

There may be a more solid way to test it using a multimeter, but that’s beyond my “off the top of the head” knowledge.
 
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Fogel said:
Woke up yesterday, car wouldn't start, 2016 Civic. Indicators/Interior come on but only gives Ebrake error. Probably battery so get neighbor to jump me, kicks right on. Drive over to autozone, battery tester says its good but it had been running for about 10 minutes at that point. Drive 45 minutes at highway speed then after running errands while it sits for 2 hours and it fails to start again the first time but it barely starts when I try a second. Then of course this morning it wont start again but isn't giving Ebrake error, all the interior stuff comes up but it just turns a few times and stops. Battery is probably a little over 3 years.

So question is, should I take it to autozone and assume their tester had a false positive and buy a new battery, or bite the bullet and take it to dealership to see if something is draining the battery?
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Get a new battery and get a battery tender.
 
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Fogel said:
Woke up yesterday, car wouldn't start, 2016 Civic. Indicators/Interior come on but only gives Ebrake error. Probably battery so get neighbor to jump me, kicks right on. Drive over to autozone, battery tester says its good but it had been running for about 10 minutes at that point. Drive 45 minutes at highway speed then after running errands while it sits for 2 hours and it fails to start again the first time but it barely starts when I try a second. Then of course this morning it wont start again but isn't giving Ebrake error, all the interior stuff comes up but it just turns a few times and stops. Battery is probably a little over 3 years.

So question is, should I take it to autozone and assume their tester had a false positive and buy a new battery, or bite the bullet and take it to dealership to see if something is draining the battery?
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Have you done any voltage drop tests? Sounds to me like a parasitic draw somewhere. Did autozone just do a conductance test? Ask to see the results. A battery can still be in the "good" CCA range, but right on the edge of needing replacement. What's the date on your battery?
 
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Kirun said:
Have you done any voltage drop tests? Sounds to me like a parasitic draw somewhere. Did autozone just do a conductance test? Ask to see the results. A battery can still be in the "good" CCA range, but right on the edge of needing replacement. What's the date on your battery?
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No voltage test, and I didn't see the results of the test, they hooked up the portable tester and just said it was good. Battery is at least 3 years old. Also hadn't used the car in 11 days, so the age of the battery combined with it sitting long enough could've been long enough to be the death kneel for it. Florida weather too as I know that can affect things.
 
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