Ranger Raptor battery drain

[rwolfcastle]

I just came across this video from this guy that bought a RRaptor. Some of it can be ignored because he's comparing it with a camper van. Still, starting at 8:12 he talks about how his battery died and if he's telling the truth, it seems a bit alarming that opening and closing the door on the truck would completely drain the battery. Has anyone else with this truck experienced this type of battery drain?

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[goalieThreeOne]

I just came across this video from this guy that bought a RRaptor. Some of it can be ignored because he's comparing it with a camper van. Still, starting at 8:12 he talks about how his battery died and if he's telling the truth, it seems a bit alarming that opening and closing the door on the truck would completely drain the battery. Has anyone else with this truck experienced this type of battery drain?

Haven’t watched the video yet to se what he’s talking about but yes, opening and closing the door can “drain” the battery. In modern vehicles, opening the door causes various modules inside the truck to wake up. They go to sleep several minutes after the door is shut but if you leave the door open, the car never actually turns off.

 

[rwolfcastle]

Haven’t watched the video yet to se what he’s talking about but yes, opening and closing the door can “drain” the battery. In modern vehicles, opening the door causes various modules inside the truck to wake up. They go to sleep several minutes after the door is shut but if you leave the door open, the car never actually turns off.

I do know that everything turns on when you open the door. They also have a lot of huge screens that need power. Obviously, if you leave the doors open that's not good but if you're closing the doors every time, it seems like excessive drain. I plan on using it for camping and I know that opening and closing doors is something you do often when camping.

 

[goalieThreeOne]

I do know that everything turns on when you open the door. They also have a lot of huge screens that need power. Obviously, if you leave the doors open that's not good but if you're closing the doors every time, it seems like excessive drain. I plan on using it for camping and I know that opening and closing doors is something you do often when camping.

If you look at what the Aussie guys do in YouTube, most of them are installing auxiliary batteries and power management systems. The truck shouldn’t die just from opening doors but if you did the tin conjunction with trying to run accessories, yeah that might do it.

 

[TSY]

What's needed is a "camp mode" in the car programming module. Something where opening any door (except the drivers door) lets you in and out without triggering all of the lights or powering up the pre-start program (leaving the vehicle in extended, low-power mode)

 

[Johnny 5]

In my 2022 F150 I traded for my RR, if you manually adjusted the headlights and then shut the truck off and exit, the lights would stay on and my battery would drain. In my older vehicles, this would never happen. There was always something in the software that would shut the lights off after X amount of minutes being on without the enginerunning. I never complained or took it to the dealer about the issue because I knew eventually I was trading in for the ranger. Maybe this is going on with these things too. I don't know?

 

[stuartmunto]

The guy talking about 'leisure batteries' and how there is no room to add a second battery in the engine bay and this being a major oversight by Ford. This alone tells me he has no idea what he is doing. There is plenty of room to add a large capacity lithium battery behind the rear seats, and there's even a whole after market supporting this with simple buy off the shelf brackets to easily add a second battery. No one is adding a second lead acid battery in the engine bay when lithium batteries are so readily available!

If the battery drained it was due to his own incompetence. I've had my RR since 2023 and have never even come close to draining the main battery. All I use is a portable 500ah lithium battery to run my Fridge and camping lights. Doors are constantly being opened and closed, or left open. Never seen voltage go below 12v. The RR will even go into a power saving mode where the interior and exterior lights won't illuminate if the battery is getting low. I've seen this happen when I haven't driven the RR for a few weeks - once it's gone for a drive it's all back to normal again

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