I'm having a car issue today

So, I go to start my car today, I turned the key to on. All the dash lights came on like normal everything was fine. I go to turn the key to actually turn the ignition over, and everything went black.

The battery I believe is about 3 years old, I think I got it back in 2019. I'm leaning towards it being a battery issue only because the last time I had a dead battery, my car remote on my keychain did not work.

Normally, when I go to unlock my car, I double tap the unlock button on the remote so that it unlocks all four doors. When I did that this morning, only the single press worked. As I was getting closer to the car, I was double tapping unlock on the remote and nothing was happening at all.

I guess it could also be a fuse, I'm just thinking with the battery being at least 3 years old it's got to be a battery issue.

Any ideas what it might be?

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Virgo79 · 61-69, M Best Comment

Battery or connections I'd guess

twiigss · M

@Virgo79 yea we're going to check to see if it's the battery. Apparently I was told, you can't go by length of time anymore with batteries. And I remember years ago someone telling me they got a new battery from walmart, and a year later, it was dead and had to be replaced again.

Google search says batteries last 3 to 4 years. I've always heard 5 years is the max. So if mine is just getting a new battery, seems more like 3 years. I just hope that's the problem and not something major cause I don't have the money for some major thing.

twiigss · M

@Virgo79 Yep, I made a new post giving an update to this :)

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@twiigss thanks for bc.🙂

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@twiigss used to be you could tell when a battery was about to dump, now one day they work and the next they don't.