I, too, am a new C-Max owner. . .and after 4 days of happy driving around town, went to start up the other day and found a completely dead battery. No lights, no startup, nothing. I called the 800# for a jump, they started it immediately, and I'm back on the road.
Then, after getting the jump, I noticed that the time wasn't set on the clock. Originally, when the salesperson tried to set it, she couldn't do it, even after 3 tries. While she set up my phone to the Sync system, I tried to set the clock and somehow got it to set correctly. It worked fine, until the battery went dead. Since getting the jump-start, the clock will NOT set to the current time, and we've noticed that it isn't running forward normally, but will occasionally move forward 1 minute. We've only gone forward about 10 minutes in the past 24 hours. Is there some known correlation between this clock discrepancy and the battery drain?? As I read through this forum, I've noticed some others with similar situations, and I'm trying to get a handle on what the problem might be. I went to the dealer, but they were really busy, and I could only get an appointment for next week. I guess in the meantime, I'll drive with NO CLOCK functioning. Hopefully the battery will hold until then without another jump.
New C-Max, 4 days later, dead battery, clock won't set and time doesn't move
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I, too, am a new C-Max owner. . .and after 4 days of happy driving around town, went to start up the other day and found a completely dead battery. No lights, no startup, nothing. I called the 800# for a jump, they started it immediately, and I'm back on the road.
Then, after getting the jump, I noticed that the time wasn't set on the clock. Originally, when the salesperson tried to set it, she couldn't do it, even after 3 tries. While she set up my phone to the Sync system, I tried to set the clock and somehow got it to set correctly. It worked fine, until the battery went dead. Since getting the jump-start, the clock will NOT set to the current time, and we've noticed that it isn't running forward normally, but will occasionally move forward 1 minute. We've only gone forward about 10 minutes in the past 24 hours. Is there some known correlation between this clock discrepancy and the battery drain?? As I read through this forum, I've noticed some others with similar situations, and I'm trying to get a handle on what the problem might be. I went to the dealer, but they were really busy, and I could only get an appointment for next week. I guess in the meantime, I'll drive with NO CLOCK functioning. Hopefully the battery will hold until then without another jump.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance. . .