After not driving my 2015 CVT for only one day the battery was too low to turn over the starter. The battery had enough juice for all interior lights and even the headlights. My headlights were already set to auto when I got in the car and I didn't have the overhead light(s) on. I do have a dashcam that I keep plugged in, but it always auto shuts off when the car turns off because it uses a capacitor instead of a battery.

I got my car checked in November for my first maintenance (car is ~1 year old now) and the battery was checked at that time. Has anyone experienced this before? I need to go in for another recall fix (rear grab rail side impact airbags) so I can ask the dealer to look over it then...

EDIT: Honda Roadside Assistance was great, had a tow company out with a battery booster within 30min at least!

 

I remember that there's a recall on certain 2015 Fit batteries. This is a known problem. Ask your dealer and search this forum.

 

Does the battery recall not show up on the normal recall lookup? I only have my single recall listed on there. I just talked to the dealer and they said they would look at when I bring the car in for the recall.

 

I saw it here

 

Awesome thanks!

 

My brother had a battery drained by a dash cam that decided to not shut off on its own.

 

Yep I'm worried that's what happened, but I have it plugged into the center armrest 12v which doesn't seem to be powered when the car is off... I've also left my car parked for much longer then 1 day and it's always started up just fine. I'm going to start double checking that the dashcam is turning off properly.

 

Honda seems to have had a bad batch of batteries last year. They didn't say anything to customers but they instructed dealers to keep bad batteries for return to Honda rather than recycle them locally as is normally done. There is no blanket recall since not all the batteries were bad and Honda has no way to tell which cars got bad batteries. They'd rather customers discover the bad batteries for themselves by being stranded than replace them all.

There isn't much margin for error when using motorcycle-sized batteries in a car!

 

Thanks for the info. I did remember reading that the 2015 Fit battery is abnormally small. I'll definitely mention to the dealer that I know of the bad battery reports when I go in next week.