Island Of Misfits

[Unca Walt]

OK I ask a second question
I understand now, If the car is under warranty they have to fix it
Could always say they have 3 trys to fix it and then Lemon Law them .

Is this a brand new Car less than a year old ?

This car was purchased new. By me. It is a 2020 Camry. Lemon Law says it has to have crapped out within a time frame that has passed.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

This car was purchased new. By me. It is a 2020 Camry. Lemon Law says it has to have crapped out within a time frame that has passed.

Again that is why I asked . A good tech can find a vampire drain with a probe light.
I use a trickle charger that I attached to my battery cables (bolted on) and mounted the unit under hood with the power cord out the front grill tucked away so I could plug my spare truck into it all the time, Been plugged in for the last 5 yrs in my driveway. When I want to use the spare truck I simply unplug the AC power cord and drive away , The battery holds a charge until I get home and plug it back in again.
Triple A AAA has 24 hr jump service I believe

 

[WeedHopper]

Glad to hear , you must have a crapload of miles on your Chev

My Avalanche has a 496(8.1), no converters, straight pipes to a Thrush Muffler and I put a 411 Rear end in it. Then had an HD Tuneup done on it. Runs fast as hell and has over 315,000 miles on it. I can burn the tires in two gears.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

My Avalanche has a 496(8.1), no converters, straight pipes to a Thrush Muffler and I put a 411 Rear end in it. Then had an HD Tuneup done on it. Runs fast as **** and has over 315,000 miles on it. I can burn the tires in two gears.

No laws on the glass packs running st/pipes LOL
I would be bagged every time I drove it LOL

 

[ROSTERMAN]

I am a Car Guy worked on them since I was 13

 

[ROSTERMAN]

No laws on the glass packs running st/pipes LOL
I would be bagged every time I drove it LOL

I see Thrush Mufflers , better than St/pipes

 

[WeedHopper]

I love my Avalanche. It's a 2002 Avalanche 2500.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

I once installed some old brass exhust pipes no mufflers I had left over when I torn my dads 32 ft boat apart , 10 ft tubes (2) from tein screws. The darn thing sound like a boat coming down the road .
It was so funny glidding into the driveway from up the block not to wake the neighbors

 

[ROSTERMAN]

I love my Avalanche. It's a 2002 Avalanche 2500.

I have a silverado 2002 but the 4.8L Quick truck for my needs

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Chevy trucks are Good once you work the China bugs out of them
I replaced most electronics over the yrs , The truck use to do all kinds of weird things with the old parts

 

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[Tattered Old Graywolf]

I said the same thing, but every time I go back for an eye exam, they bump the prescription up a couple of notches.

Yeah, I passed bifocals and had to get implant lenses.

morning folks, today is a cooking day, 4 gallons of soup, 2 pounds of sausage gnocchi with broccoli rabini, and 24 boneless chicken thighs on the charcoal grill...I freeze most of my meals in vac sealer bags...toss one in the boiling water at dinnertime and I get a 5 star meal with zero effort...enjoy the day folks, say a prayer for sanity in the world...

Let's hear it for big freezers, especially when you are a bachelor!!

26F with about a 7mph wind this morning here! Feeling sorry for the fruit farmers, whose trees thought spring was already here.......................

My second day of physical therapy for my back and neck yesterday and got some new exercises to build core strength.

Whomped up a couple half gallons of pickled vegetables Monday and sampled them yesterday. I used pomegranate vinegar, which added an interesting flavor.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Problems with the Dead Battery – Draining
Moving onto the battery, Toyota is aware of some troubles with this system. Service Bulletin #T-SB-0007-19 talks about different aspects that can affect the performance and life of the battery. The reason for this bulletin was to address a growing number of customer concerns about needing a new battery within the first year of the car’s life.

Here is one of several owner’s complaints mentioning the issue on Kelley Blue Book: “I bought what I thought was my dream car, a 2020 Toyota Camry 06/01/20. Today is the 3rd time I have taken it in to the dealership to have the 2nd battery replaced- I took it in two weeks ago, dealership said everything was fine- they forced the battery to fail, said they replaced it and this morning after the car sitting for one day without being driven and it was dead again! I am so disappointed in this car.”

Toyota doesn’t take any responsibility but claims the batteries are dying because of storage, temperature, battery loads and parasitic drains. It must just be that Camry owners are harder and more damaging to their batteries than other owners. It’s a very strange phenomenon.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

https://www.carproblemzoo.com/toyota/camry/2020/battery-dead-problems.php@Unca Walt
Read this link

 

[WeedHopper]

I understood the first time Roster. But thanks for the post count.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

When all said and done Might be a subject for your next book

 

[ROSTERMAN]

I understood the first time Roster. But thanks for the post count.

Yep I fixed it Link was ***/backwards again

 

[ROSTERMAN]

 

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[ROSTERMAN]

OK -- Now the old guy needs advice/help. The problem is up front and in my face:

Herself went to the store (5 miles away). When she came out, our 2020 Camry with <7000 miles on it was stone dead. ZERO electricity for anything at all. She got me on the phone, and Scott, who was about to leave to go back to Oregon, canceled that and we hopped in his rental.

A pretty lady in the parking lot offered her jumper cables and we got the Camry started right up. Decided to take the car (still under warranty) to Toyota. On the way, I stopped at AutoZone and had them check the battery. 12.3V <-- Fine.

At the dealership, they told me the "battery had one cell that had no fluid", and they'd fixed that. (Side note: I am an EE. That explanation made no sense.)

Now, my Beautiful Witch is afraid to go anywhere alone, and my busted bod will give me toco if I have to ride with her every day for shopping, etc.

Went back to Toyota, and told them I want to have them do the warranty 10K thing, and to pay attention to the totally electrically dead thing.

Bottom line, they came back with: "There is a special part for the battery, and it has been on order for months. You need to hook up a trickle charger every night to the car."

For on the road fails, "You need to have a jump-starter you can keep in the trunk."

This is, of course, totally unacceptable to Herself: I did buy ($130) a jump-starter and put it in the trunk (must be recharged in the house monthly, BTW). And a trickle-charger ($40). <-- But hooking up my car every night??

Then I did a Duck search and found this:
https://lemberglaw.com/2020-toyota-camry-problems-complaints-lemon/
https://us.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/topic/7304-2020-camry-battery-going-dead/
Here is my problem summed:

Our car is now very nearly useless. But it is needed. We live in the boonies. I checked those links, and found out about Lemon Law. <-- since the first time it went dead was NOT within the right time frame... I am screwed Lemon Law wise.

I need sooper brilliant wrenchers (eg: Boo) to tell me what to do.

GFO
Nice Job Editing your original question Ya Dummy