Strange thing happened to me this weekend… first off, I’ve had my RZR for about 3 months now, and I don’t know how old the battery in it is. It could very well need replacing. It has never given me any trouble though, and it has sat 3-4 weeks at a time with no problems cranking. That said, I went to crank it yesterday and it was dead as a doorknob. Fuel pump wouldn’t even turn on or any lights on the speedometer. Kind of odd to me because I had just used it a bout a week and a half ago and it started just fine. So I tried to jump it off and it jumped right off, but as soon as I’d remove the cables, it would die. So I figured the connections probably needed cleaning and took everything loose and cleaned it all up. While I did that, I checked the battery and it only registered about 7.5v. So then I thought well maybe battery’s just toast. Well I hooked everything back up and put my meter on again just to be sure and I noticed voltage drop. It would drop .01v about every 2-3 seconds with key switched off. I went ahead and fully charged the battery and cranked it again and it kept running on its own. I let it idle for a few minutes to try and keep the battery charging and it sat there and ran fine. So I went to move it around the house and i made about halfway and it started to spit and sputter, so I stopped and was going to turn around and take it back and it died right there and wouldn’t crank again. Battery dead that quick.

So does this sound like the battery is just shot? Or is that too much of a power draw somewhere? Or maybe a problem with my stator? I forgot to check the voltage while it was running. It was just odd that it has done fine as long as I’ve had it, and did fine just a week ago and now all of a sudden it’s dead. And when I used it a week ago all I did was move a trailer around in the yard and park it. Ran it for maybe 10-15 mins just around the yard so I don’t think anything could have happened between then and now. Any ideas before I drop the money on a battery?