If the car was dead....and you jumped it...and it started....its the battery.

 

Battery wasnt dead. radio, ac, and windows worked. Terminals were gunky, so cleaned them off and still same problem. After 20 or so attempts the battery was dead lol

 

Radio and windows take a LOT less juice than cranking the starter. Your battery was too dead to start the engine, but had enough power to run the radio (you can run the radio for a couple of hours before you use as much juice as starting the engine).

And it wasn't your actual AC (just the fan), the compressor runs off the engine.

 

True, ok, well I'm thinking of trying to limp it up to advanced auto to check the battery.

 

Yep, all it takes is a bad cell in the battery. Lights and accessories work but the truck won't start. (ask me how I know! )

Don't know if that is your problem but getting the battery checked out is a great start.

 

Of course I have a yellow top Duracell battery. It was put on 4/11. Anyone know if it's in warranty?

 

Duralast.. Autocorrect on iPad. I just answered my own question. 2 year warranty yay

 

Bad cell in the battery. Replaced fired right up. Hopefully this will end the problems

 

Great! Hope that's it! :cheers2:

 

if it doesn't the Red lightning bolt is also the sigul of Loki, and he may have claimed your jeep as his own.

 

I think red lighting bolt is the ETC. electronic throttle control.

My Ram did that ad they cleaned the throttle body. Apparently that's the fix

 

Electronic Throttle Control is a sensitive area - you know the SAD (sudden acceleration syndrome thing). As part of the safety engineered behind ETC (as it IS an electric pulse motor with no heavy return spring) a low voltage will disable and close the throttle - that could be why the dead battery lit it up... so its not exactly like a dirty TB (which should light the light IF the dirty causes mechanical resistance in the throttle shaft.

 

The light still illuminates before cranking, but after cranking it goes away. I took it in while it was under warranty and they couldn't get it to duplicate, so they did nothing. The battery had a bad cell, but if that was the fix, I'm taking the receipt back to jeep, and trying to get them to reimburse me for the fix since they didn't

 

The light will always come one when you crank it, its part of the self test procedures and all the lights should come on during this time. If the lights don't go out or come back on while you're driving then you have a problem.

 

When that happened in my truck the light came on after starting. There was a rough idle. I turned the truck off. Started it and the light went away. But because my battery didn't die they were able to pull up the error code and see that the ETC light illuminated.

The fix wasn't covered under my warranty and cost me $150 to have the throttle body cleaned.

 

Can anyone else confirm that the red lightning bolt always comes on prior to cranking? I didnt notice this light until I started having problems....

 

I literally just took this pic

It's also the last light to go off aside from seat belt

 

if it doesn't the Red lightning bolt is also the sigul of Loki, and he may have claimed your jeep as his own.

Can't be. Good guys drive Jeeps in the Avengers.

 

I literally just took this pic

It's also the last light to go off aside from seat belt

Awesome . I appreciate it. Sounds like it was just the battery... This time

Can't be. Good guys drive Jeeps in the Avengers.

lol