I hope we don't get stranded somewhere in Italy on our way home last year.
The car is now showing an electronic parking break issue when started.
We made to our hotel and the car seems fine, huh?
And the battery is to be dead even though it never showed low battery voltage...
We got it jumpstarted and drove home without turning off the engine since we could make it on home on the full tank of gas we had...
Except we didn't make it and the car shat the bed in a traffic jam few meters across the Czech border.
It's still there btw waiting for a tow truck with my dad
The car doesn't have a fucking manual parking brake release!
@graf based taxi driver took us home instead of picking up his gf
@matrix just replace the battery. (If you cannot for some reason, you can likely make do for a while by keeping it on a charger while the car is parked.)
Charging the battery is a burden to the charging system. It isn't necessarily always strong enough to charge a broken or discharged battery *and* keep the car running at the same time. Especially if you use a lot of extra power through lights or indicators while idling at a traffic light.
@juliangro too late 
I was saying to replace the battery from start and was ignored 
@juliangro it's mostlikely not the battery, the guy from the tow truck tried to jump start it so he could release the brake and the car didn't even tried to start, it's completely dead, there's probably some electrical fault
Hopefully the ECU or something didn't fry itself
@Pawlicker @juliangro
No clue, I wasn't there and we're all car retards here. We'll see what the repair shop discovers.
@matrix that doesn't necessarily mean that the battery isn't the problem. If he didn't disconnect the battery, that battery might have drawn too much power.
Also most modern cars won't even try to start if the voltage is too low. On my old Ford you would hear constant clicking, but it wouldn't even try to crank.
Our VW wouldn't even start when connected to a running car with a full battery while the old battery was still connected.
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@matrix this whole thing sounds like someone playing My Summer Car or The Long Drive.
@Pawlicker 2017 Chrysler Pacifica
Not a fca or Stellaris or whoever they call themselves now car 💀
@Pawlicker @matrix on cryslers the alternator has never made much in the way of current at idle
this is a problem that goes back to the introduction of alternators on their products
back then it was because all current flowed to the dashboard ammeter before the rest of the vehicle, these days who the fuck knows
https://www.pacificaforums.com/threads/not-sure-what-is-going-on.46915/
The other issue is rodents and this happened to a car I had too, also canbus issues.
https://www.pacificaforums.com/threads/total-electrical-system-failure-intermittent-update-solved.46920/
@Pawlicker It doesn't have start stop.
It's quite possible rodents chewed on some wire. When we were on vacation in Menton (the same place as this year) last year and coolant started leaking there was a pretty big slash in the tube. Do rats like warm moist carparks several stories deep under the sea?
No clue what's wrong with the car but imo it's just that the battery was on it's last legs and now is toast and the alternator doesn't provide enough power when idling to keep the car alive.