Bad 12V battery after 3 years

[CaptainAmericaRob]

Welp, it's only been 3 years and 37k miles, but ....i'm getting warnings about the vehicle turning off features to save battery life.
i know from past experience with gf's Ford Edge that it's a bad battery, but after only 3 years? that's a year or two early .
i'm not sure if it's going to last another month.
i have a month to decide if i'm buying out this lease or take the new 25' Lariat PB i have on order. i'd hate to drop $200 on a battery just to turn it in.

anyone else have a bad battery after 3 years?

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[Kanuck]

I would put it on a maintainer and try and get one from a scrap yard if I was turning it in shortly.

 

[Severdog]

anyone else have a bad battery after 3 years?

I think several of us have noticed the same thing, there are some enormous threads on this topic in this forum. So YES, we've seen this a lot, in many cases well before three years. My chosen replacement was from Batteries Plus and cost about $350 after discount and core refund. Others have gone a much more inexpensive route with good results as well.

 

[m_bt54]

if you got 3 years, consider yourself lucky. Many of us have had to replace ours in 0-2 years

 

[FaaWrenchBndr]

The OEM batteries are absolute garbage

 

[Jean Deaux]

Welp, it's only been 3 years and 37k miles, but ....i'm getting warnings about the vehicle turning off features to save battery life.
i know from past experience with gf's Ford Edge that it's a bad battery, but after only 3 years? that's a year or two early .
i'm not sure if it's going to last another month.
i have a month to decide if i'm buying out this lease or take the new 25' Lariat PB i have on order. i'd hate to drop $200 on a battery just to turn it in.

anyone else have a bad battery after 3 years?

I experienced the same when my 2021 truck was two years old and less than 20k miles. I addressed the issue and dealer replaced the battery.

 

[whizkidder]

Most of our OEM batteries were bad when we drove them off the lot new. Trucks that sat for months waiting on chips were especially affected. I replaced mine with a Walmart H8 at about 1 year, and no issues since.

 

[Kodiak]

If you got a full 3 years on a Ford battery with a PB from that time, you are probably about 1 year better than most.

 

[CaptainAmericaRob]

If you got a full 3 years on a Ford battery with a PB from that time, you are probably about 1 year better than most.

wow, yeah that's hat i'm seeing.
i couldnt find a battery votage gage or light anywhere in the dash gauges, is that true? would b a first for my vehicles.

 

[rjulian]

If you got a full 3 years on a Ford battery with a PB from that time, you are probably about 1 year better than most.

I got 2 years out of my 12V on a 2022 PB. Truck started acting up and throwing BISG codes.

New Die Hard Platinum, and it’s been behaving since I cleared the codes and torqued the battery connections to spec.

 

[DEEPDOWN]

Welp, it's only been 3 years and 37k miles, but ....i'm getting warnings about the vehicle turning off features to save battery life.
i know from past experience with gf's Ford Edge that it's a bad battery, but after only 3 years? that's a year or two early .
i'm not sure if it's going to last another month.
i have a month to decide if i'm buying out this lease or take the new 25' Lariat PB i have on order. i'd hate to drop $200 on a battery just to turn it in.

anyone else have a bad battery after 3 years?

Welp, it's only been 3 years and 37k miles, but ....i'm getting warnings about the vehicle turning off features to save battery life.
i know from past experience with gf's Ford Edge that it's a bad battery, but after only 3 years? that's a year or two early .
i'm not sure if it's going to last another month.
i have a month to decide if i'm buying out this lease or take the new 25' Lariat PB i have on order. i'd hate to drop $200 on a battery just to turn it in.

anyone else have a bad battery after 3 years?

 

[DEEPDOWN]

Welp, it's only been 3 years and 37k miles, but ....i'm getting warnings about the vehicle turning off features to save battery life.
i know from past experience with gf's Ford Edge that it's a bad battery, but after only 3 years? that's a year or two early .
i'm not sure if it's going to last another month.
i have a month to decide if i'm buying out this lease or take the new 25' Lariat PB i have on order. i'd hate to drop $200 on a battery just to turn it in.

anyone else have a bad battery after 3 years?

check with your dealer there was a known problem with a certain batch of batteries and I had mine (2022) replaced for free, but having said that three years is not unusual, to only get three years out of it. Hopefully that’s the worst of your problems!

 

[oharmer]

Welp, it's only been 3 years and 37k miles, but ....i'm getting warnings about the vehicle turning off features to save battery life.
i know from past experience with gf's Ford Edge that it's a bad battery, but after only 3 years? that's a year or two early .
i'm not sure if it's going to last another month.
i have a month to decide if i'm buying out this lease or take the new 25' Lariat PB i have on order. i'd hate to drop $200 on a battery just to turn it in.

anyone else have a bad battery after 3 years?

A lot has to do with how much your truck runs on eco, / battery. When they run on battery they are not charging. My truck just did this last week, I noticed that my interior lights were not coming on, researched it and a few posts said just put a charger on it over night. I did that and so far, so good. I may just do that once a month because I do a lot of city driving, not many times does truck run with motor for more than 10 minutes at at a time. Time will tell.

 

[2Lazy2P]

check with your dealer there was a known problem with a certain batch of batteries and I had mine (2022) replaced for free, but having said that three years is not unusual, to only get three years out of it. Hopefully that’s the worst of your problems!

I had mine replaced by the dealer after two years, but under warranty. It took quite a bit to convince the dealer to do so. Not that they didn't want to, but Ford requires evidence of a clear failure line to the battery being defective.

 

[PowerBoostSoCal]

Try the dealer route first ... as suggested use a battery maintainer each night - if you are going to trade it in - just nurse it to the end. These new trucks (all of them) have so many power demands that drain all the time - AGM batteries are great for handling these demands because they recharge quickly and constant draining generally does not hurt performance (much). The OEM battery is mid-grade at best.

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