Battery Dead Problems of Toyota Matrix

The contact owns a 2008 Toyota Matrix. The contact stated that there was an internal electrical short that progressed intermittently for three years. In addition, the instrument cluster flickered, various internal and external lights randomly illuminated, and the power steering failed, which caused the steering wheel to be extremely tight. The contact also indicated that the vehicle stalled multiple times without warning. The first dealer diagnosed that the battery would not hold a charge. The dealer replaced the battery and the failure recurred. The vehicle was taken back to the first dealer who then flushed the engine assembly, replaced the drive belt, and inspected the ecu for an internal failure. The first dealer replaced the ecu and restructured the main control plug on the body control module, but the vehicle continued to randomly stall without warning. The vehicle was towed to a second dealer where it was diagnosed that the junction control failed and needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was notified of the failures. The approximate failure mileage was 55,318.

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At two years and one month old, the original battery died and was not able to hold a charge. This occurred on 2/3/06 at 31,229 miles. A new battery was purchased for $ 68. 06 and was installed on 2/6/06. Two days later the replacement battery died. It was recharged and ran ok for a few days. It died again on 2/12/06. Just before the original battery died the cd player stops working as did the clock. Neither of these has worked ever since.

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