jeep battery drains only sometimes

Asked by GuruSHMCP Jun 01, 2019 at 05:58 PM about the 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 4WD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

My moms Jeep grand Cherokee I think 2004 has a drain on the battery.  I go up to her house once a week to take her grocery shopping.  she drives it to get her mail a couple times a week.  Sometimes its fine but other times its completely drained no lights ect but I hear a motor running its very faint from under the dash.  I plug battery charger in and it stops.   When I unplug it the motor continues.  I have noticed this noise each time the car doesn't start but cant figure out what it is?  

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Hornet_2497 answered 5 years ago

All those strange symptoms are just signs of low voltage from lack of frequent, extended use. It takes more than a drive to the mailbox to replenish a stale battery. Your computer uses power all the time, running or off. So if your battery is fairly new, you need to put it on a battery maintainer (not a charger) during those times it's not used daily.

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