How long does your battery last?
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02/25/20 01:14 AM
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I think mine has had it. Won't hold a charge very long. I checked, and I got it 9-10 years ago. Not bad I am thinking. It was listed as an 84 month battery FWIW.
How long do you expect a battery to last?
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Re: How long does your battery last?
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I have an auto repair shop for 33 years. Average seems around 5 to 6 years. Longest I have seen was 13 years. Just what I have seen....
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Re: How long does your battery last?
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I bought my '04 Ram new in Oct 2003 and it still has the original battery
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Re: How long does your battery last?
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02/25/20 08:02 AM
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therocks
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oh wait.but hey.lets see.oh yeah.
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My son bought his Ram in 04 and his brother replaced the battery 2 years ago.The 12 Joyurney had it replaced this year.Was still ok but a little weak.Didnt want the wife to have problems.My 65s lasted about 10 years.Rocky
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Re: How long does your battery last?
[Re: RTSE4ME]
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got my road runner in 2007 and bought a battery for it then. Replaced it last year, but I know I coulda got another year out of it.
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Re: How long does your battery last?
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in the winters or Wisconsin a battery lasts about 4-6 years on someone important to you daily drivers that sit outside. that's on modern cars with a lot of electronics that always seem to have a really small electric drain. if you let them get completely dead that seems to shorten it's life.
they usually last longer, but after 6 years you start to roll the dice.
perception is 90% of reality
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Re: How long does your battery last?
[Re: Mr T2U]
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02/25/20 09:23 AM
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Usually 4 to 5 years for a parts store battery. Just replaced the one in my cuda last weekend...old one was bought in 2015. The original factory car batteries seem to last a long time.
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Re: How long does your battery last?
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Generally it is HEAT and vibration that kill batteries, more than cold . . . . I still have original batteries in my 2002 Cummins, my 04 Xfire, 06 Magnum . . . but I have a battery tender on them when I am not driving them, and because I can get the caps off the cells, I ensure that the cells are topped up with distilled water ! Almost 20 years on the batteries in my truck !! WOW . . . test ok still ! . . . but then I don't drive the truck or Xfire in the winter . . .and the Magnum does see minus 20 F weather and such . . . maintaining the battery goes LONG way to their lfie/health ! . . . the Optima in my 70 Satellite is now 10yrs old, still all good too - yup battery maintainer on it too . . .
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Re: How long does your battery last?
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02/25/20 01:34 PM
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therocks
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oh wait.but hey.lets see.oh yeah.
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My old Allis Chalmers garden tractor took the old style Ford battery.It was in there for probally 15 years minimum.Still started it great.Oh yeah had a cheap Az batt in the quad.It was at least 10 years old and still was going pretty good.My youngest replaced it even though it still was good.Rocky
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Re: How long does your battery last?
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02/25/20 01:57 PM
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When I lived in Tennessee 10 years was not un heard of and the record I personaly saw was 17 years (factory GM), the factory GM batteries seemed to last the longest and the factory mopar ones were terrible, I worked at the dodge dealer and it was very common to replace 2 year old batteries.
Now in montana where it gets a lot colder none of them seem to last very long, oddly enough the factory mopar ones seem to be ok for a few years. If we get a car in now with a 4-5 year old battery it is often suspect in hard start conditions like -20* weather.
I think the battery life would probably be the same butt it takes a lot more to start a very cold -20* engine than a 40* engine so even though the battery might not actually be any worse it just seems worse because your car won't start.
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Re: How long does your battery last?
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I've always got long lives out of my cars batteries, therefore I was surprised last summer when my 2014 Dart's battery went bad almost 5 years to the day after I bought the car. My 2009 Challenger still has its original battery, however I probably have pushed it to far with that one. I was seeing signs it was getting weak last fall and should have replaced it before I stored the car for winter in early December. I'm pretty sure if I tried to start the car I'd find it's DOA now. I will get a new battery for it next month before I go to start it for the season. I had a Walmart battery in my convertible that might have been close to 15 years old when it finally needed replacement. That car probably gets driven 500-750 miles a year, is garaged, but unheated garage with no battery tender.
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Re: How long does your battery last?
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Batteries don't last down here in Florida. If you get 3 or 4 years out of one you got your monies worth.
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