Rodger, you don't drive it often? 3-4 yrs on a battery built in this century is a bit light....but you aren't concerned so I suppose I shouldn't raise questions?
jeff
Jeff, it now has 68,000 miles on it. What's is sort of hilarious. I bought it in February of this year, it had 57,800 miles on it. Curious about the former owner, how it accumulated the miles, what type they were, (Highway or City), didn't take long. They never reset the infotainment system. The former owner lives 3.8 miles away from me. He had a horrible commute, Van Dyne, WI, to Chicago, IL, but had a great vehicle to make it in! He also commuted to company branches in Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana, and Ohio. Has 3 daughters all in different colleges, 1 is working her doctorate, 1 on her Master's, the youngest just started college last year. So it's safe to say most of the mileage is highway. I also have all the families cell phone numbers, addresses, same goes for his primary business colleagues. Let's see, oh, they have 2 Golden Retriever's, and a Bass Master boat. The list goes on, those were the eye opening entries. I considered dropping in for a meet and greet. Intro myself and let him know, Good old trucks are a lot like a faithful, loyal, good old dog! They never get lost, and always know the way home! Dunno, kind of wonder though. With all I know about him, his family, that I got no business knowing! I could be greeted with the business end of a 410, 12 gauge, or worse, his really livid wife, ready to end us both, cause nobody hit the data delete/reset selection on the infotainment system! Everyone here driving a Expy., with all this connectivity stuff, don't forget reset when you pass it on to the next owner! There's a life in there, I had no clue the depth of the data stored was, "That," deep and detailed. Then again, a vehicle that keeps up with the batteries age and health, why wouldn't it know everything about you, the entire time you owned it! As for my battery reset situation, it has not reset yet, so I have to be doing something wrong??? To be sure I understand the process. Vehicle turned off, parked, locked, with no interaction for 8 hours. The system is supposed to reset. What about the electrical stuff in it that never shuts off? I have considered just disconnecting the battery for 8 hours? But I saw somewhere that locks out stuff like the infotainment system, starter, fuel pump, and you need some, "Incode", # to get it up and running, to which I sit here with the, "Duh, I'm stupid and clueless," look on my face??? None of this is in the vehicle O.M., cept for very vague, don't worry, electrical system looks after itself, shutting down stuff if you forget, to protect the batteries charge state. So what cha think I should do next? Disconnect all the non standard electrical stuff, like the Iridium phone, the communications sys., little power vampires, how off and locked, must it be? Disconnecting the battery would be a lot easier than fiddling with the extra stuff in there. The extra stuff only pulls a small amount of electricity so things don't lose memory, configuration settings, lame stuff like that. It's getting like even the simplest task requires a mechanic! Thank God for this website, and those far more in sync with the Expy, than me, always learning here.
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