I have had a 2014 Cmax for about two week and yesterday the battery was dead and had it jumped and then got into this battery mess.
We typically use the car only to go shopping once a week with an occasional run in between. Was buying this car a bad idea?
My real question is based on the words of the guy who came out to jump it. Something like, let it run for 45 minutes before driving or turning it off. Sounded reasonable.
After about 15 minutes I went out to find nothing running but blowers for the heater it seems obvious that this is no way to charge a battery.
Which one of us is wrong?
He also said not to connect a 12 v charger to terminals under the hood but to go directly to the battery in the trunk. This seems grossly inconvenient and his reason didn't make much sense because he didn't do a very good job of explaining why.
It also occurred to me that I might charge it through the 12 v lighter jack in the cab.but I measured 0 volts when I went out to check it with a DVM.
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