Trouble codes again!

What Bill says.

You are observing two codes, 12 and 55. 12 means the battery has been disconnected, 55 means there are no more codes.

ok, but my battery has not been disconnected in over a year. the jeep suddenly dies only to restart after setting for a couple of minutes. Any suggestions as to what might be the problem?

I would got to a parts stores and have the battery check, i would also inspect the cable and clean the battery post. might be an Alternator problem too, it would make the vehicules dies when their is no charge in the battery.

Remember that a bad cable and low voltage battery will make you car died as well.

Pat

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I recently had a guy at my house whos clock kept resetting itself. It was driving him nuts because he would set it, and go somewhere and park. Start the car and the clock would flash 12:00 again.

It turns out his battery was going. The funny thing is, there was no other symptom. The car started easily every time, and by all measures, it was fine. Just the clock would forget what time it was.

It just ocurred to me that just maybe 12 means the batery has not only been disconnected, but it is weak as well.

That is strange.

However, on my mothers car the power door locks quit one day.. Several days later she brought it over and the battery showed bad. Replaced it, everything works fine again.

Andy

By the way, I have never seen anybody NOT get a 12. I wouldn't spend any effort at all chasing this down.

Typically what happens is people clear codes by disconnecting the battery. When they reconnect the battery, the first thing that happens is the code gets set that says the battery was not connected. This is not a fatal code, so it does not turn the Check light on, but the code is stored along with other codes that might come up from time to time.

Troubled batteries can do strange things. On a Toyota Sienna we had the power door locks operate mysteriously on their own. Every once in a while they would just go lock, unlock, lock, try to lock again, unlock, wait a while, then start doing it again. A new battery fixed that too. It was just a coincidence that it was changed out at that time, but the problem went away. Of course I took full credit for 'fixing' that one.... Tomes