I imagine If you have a Platinum as opposed to an XLT time left not started might be different. Alarms Ford pass all use more juice.

 

Yea, my concern voiced comes from a buddy who wasted two AGM batteries in a year before he figured out it was his $5.00, 2 amp "trickle" charger that pushed voltage constantly. Do not want to see others run into that unnecessary expense.

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Well if thats true and have no reason to not believe it, then this is another one of those annoying message features which means nothing if the truck actually starts.
I suppose reducing unnecessary battery draws is a good thing if the battery has a low enough voltage.
It would be good to know what that trigger voltage is to display that message.

But my previous post still stands for those with re-occuring Deep Sleep Mode messages.

 

Thank you for posting this battery/storage document. I do have a question, is it ok to drive the truck when in transport mode? which is what I did today, I did an 12 mile country road cruise at 40 miles per hour and maintained at 2-3rpm, pushed it to 4 rpm once for about 8 seconds. The truck was seriously sluggish...but after exiting transport mode, it completely woke up. But did I damage it during the 10 miles?

 

yeah dealer is full of **** - warranty group needs to crack a service manual on occasion.

Deep sleep as someone else said comes on after some period of time - I think 10 days give or take. it's to save the battery and what it should do - key unlock (button or key in door) - door open trigger interior lights. should wake it up and it might be slow to start. Unfortunately what can happen. Deep sleep shuts the ECU off if I recall correctly, so it can take a moment to start - but if the battery is really low when it happens - car has to be jumped off.

issue is that body control module is the only thing left on that I recall - which is why the delay. doubt it would even click.