Battery going bad - 10 years, 3 months

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Royse

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• Nov 11, 2018

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I bought this truck new in August of 2008. Picture taken last week.
Today I replaced the battery for the first time. 152K miles and
change. What's sad is that the battery was still good enough to get
the job done as long as I drove it regularly but since I bought a
new truck, this one has been setting quite a bit. If it sat for 3-4
weeks, the battery wouldn't start it. It would still run the chimes
and the lights, but wouldn't crank the engine. There is no drain on
the battery and a load test proved that the battery had finally given
up the ghost. I guess I shouldn't complain. I wish I could get 10+
years out of all of the batteries around here.

 

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Bob Bancroft

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Location

Aurora NY

• Nov 11, 2018

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I think if all of our machines were run as regularly as our motor vehicles, with good charging systems, our batteries would last longer. Would still have the vibration/pounding of heavy, off road machines though.

 

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ben70b

Member

• Nov 11, 2018

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What kinda battery?

 

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Royse

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• Nov 11, 2018

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"What kinda battery?" - Motorcraft Group 65

 

rusty6

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Location

East central Sask.

• Nov 11, 2018

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Its always a roll of the dice with batteries. I've had some that die after only a few years but most do closer to ten. I've got a pair of record breaking Interstates that just amaze me. They were 20 years old this past summer. I retired them from the CIH combine last year thinking they would fail during harvest. I installed one in the 730 Case diesel just to see how it would do. It was in one of my recent cold start videos a couple of weeks ago firing up the old diesel with no problem. No special treatment. Those batteries sat on the combine from October til next August without running or any special care.
Couple of years ago I put a new AC Delco battery on the Honda trike in late fall and hardly used it. Went to start it in spring and it was dead as could be. Just off warranty too!

 

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Dieseltech

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Location

Akron, Indiana

• Nov 11, 2018

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If most of my batteries lasted ten years I'd be tickled. Most don't last that long. The best I did have was one month short of fourteen years of a pair in the 04 Dodge Cummins bought new in February 2004.

 

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Russ from MN

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Location

Bemidji MN

• Nov 11, 2018

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I had a JD Strongbox last a little over 13 years, but it was light service and well taken care of.

 

Hobo,NC

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Location

Sanford, NC

• Nov 11, 2018

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Motorcraft Group 65 do seam to last a long time you pay more for a group 65 but they are the real deal...

 

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Old weldor

Member

• Nov 11, 2018

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I bought my 03 f-150 new. The original motorcraft battery was in it for eleven years. Never died I changed it because it was cranking slower on
cold mornings! You will never get that much life out of a replacement.

 

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Ray

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• Nov 11, 2018

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Radios and computers take voltage all the time.Any truck i?ve Owned would be dead after setting for weeks. I always unhook them if setting.

 

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Steve@Advance

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• Nov 11, 2018

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Got to be the cold climate.

It's unheard of to get that kind of life out of a battery down here in the Texas heat.

Here lately I've been getting about 2 years out of a lead acid battery. I've got an AGM in the wife's car as an experiment. It's about 2 years old now, we'll see...

 

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Dean

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• Nov 11, 2018

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Ten - twelve years for a regularly used 12V battery that is not abused is common these days but I get only 5 or 6 from 6V ones, and that only if regularly charged in periods of non use.

Dean

 

M-MAN

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Location

Bostic, NC

• Nov 12, 2018

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3 year's tops around here for the last
decade. Lawnmowers 2. 6v never lasted a
year so gave up on those thirty years ago.

I have about decided when it comes to
batteries and ethanol location alone
decides your luck with either.

 

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pinball

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• Nov 12, 2018

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I can say one thing about chevy trucks they have a very good charging system. I have a 2010 that has 35000 on it. don't drive it much. the charging system doesn't charge unless the battery Is low according to the guage. that's the way it look to me which is better than charging all the time. the motor also starts in seconds with help . I have a battery maintainer for my tractor batterys. try to charge all of them once a month during cold weather. sure does help as batterys aren't cheap anymore. I quit buying walmarts all together. My old Toyota corolla I bought new in 1980 because of the hi price of gas and the gas mileage it got was retired in 1996 with the original battery still in it that I know was dead twice because of lights left on and I recharged the battery. course that little 4 cylinder motor would start if it moved at all which is really the trick to longer lasting battery. she wouldn't go fast but boy was she dependable and at the time saved me lot of money on gas.

 

Blackhole49

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Location

White Lake MI

• Nov 12, 2018

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I just replaced the battery (12-07) on my 08 Silverado Saturday. Same thing. Worked fine if started regularly,
but was getting so after 1 week of sitting it was cranking slow. Mine just turned 50,000 miles. It had never
had the terminals cleaned and they were still totally corrosion free. I'll bet this battery doesn't last 11
years.

 

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jddrawbar

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• Nov 12, 2018

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Steve you are spot on......2-3 yrs. is a good run on my place (central Tx.).

 

ptfarmer

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Location

San Antonio, Tx

• Nov 12, 2018

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(quoted from post at 21:27:40 11/11/18) Got to be the cold climate.

It's unheard of to get that kind of life out of a battery down here in the Texas heat.

Here lately I've been getting about 2 years out of a lead acid battery. I've got an AGM in the wife's car as an experiment. It's about 2 years old now, we'll see...

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My dad got 11 years out the original battery in his 2006 Ford F150. As of todays date the truck has a little over 82,000 miles on it.

 

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Bruce(OR)

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• Nov 12, 2018

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Motorcraft batteries are rated for 10 years.
However, while the battery might last 10 years, it is dying with age. Not enough juice to spin the starter as it should and the alternator
works twice as hard recharging a dying battery.
So the starter is overworked not having enough juice to spin it and the alt wears out working to recharge a weak battery,
Add the price of both to a battery and you saved how much?
I like batteries to last but at the first sign of trouble, get rid of it.
Unless you like wrenching on your vehicle and paying the extra few hundred for parts.

 

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Royse

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• Nov 12, 2018

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Bruce(OR), I didn't mess with it either. I replaced it.
I don't like the idea of being stranded somewhere either.

Lawn mower batteries seem to be the worst for me.
It "seems" like I have to replace them every year.
In reality, the one giving me trouble today is dated 2013.
It will also get replaced since it goes in my snowblowing
garden tractor.