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Originally Posted by masraum
When the battery goes dead in my wife's Outback, the power windows stop working from the driver's door switches, but they'll work from the switches on the other doors (local to the window). But you can reset the windows from the car. Something like "turn the car to "on" (but don't start it), roll the window all of the way up and back down with the switch on the door." (or something like that). Once I've done that, the windows work for all of the switches.
But it's just a regular computer thing. That's weird about introducing the car to the battery. I don't think that's the same though. I don't think the battery has a digital signature that has to be programmed into the car or it won't work at all, and I suspect there's a way that it could be done without being an issue, but maybe I'm wrong.
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If it’s anything like my Mini, it’s more to do with the charging system. My Mini has a progressive charging regime. As the battery ages, charging voltage goes up and the CPU remembers. Put a brand new battery in without resetting the CPU and BOOM,,,, from overcharging.