best practices for long battery life
I cannot get more than 3 years out of my battery on my TT. Original battery was an interstate. It was replaced under warranty going into its third year. The replacement lasted two years. I then trie...
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- Cheap price
- Maintenance free
- Battery CHARGER
- Not a converter
- Simple maintenance
- No hydrometer
- Plug n Play
- Large energy reserve
Should you stumble over such a miracle hiding inside a monk's Tibetan cave let me know.
Could use the same positives for clothes, razor blades, etc.
Treated semi correctly a thick plate AGM will last an astonishingly long time. The main thing is getting it 100% recharged as soon as possible. If you want to nursemaid a wet cell battery that's fine. I've been doing that with 24 + 12 cells for decades.
Don't know about you. but a failed battery costs me a failed mission, time and energy to pull the battery, going to the store without having the hassle of time, parking and gasoline, then reaching for the wallet, and reversing the process. Tah Dah, carve a notch on the door frame. Six down, or is it seven?
An early failure of a calcium calcium junk battery really jammed this point up my ---. A 240 mile trip utterly wasted. Plans to buy cheaper food, and needed supplies shredded into confetti. The failure cost me the trip, too much time lost, plus unwarranted cost of a replacement.
Maybe I count stuff important to me differently. Money, Time, Frustration. A job timetable utterly ruined.
But it's a decision made on an individual basis. Back home battery maintenance is a morning ritual. And I have time planned to set aside. I was not amused to part with 250 dollars and a blown day then return home to remember all the stuff that has to remain unfixed. I live in a place where size 13 shoes and XXL clothes are as rare as a blue eyed iguana. In October the month following the battery an original starter motor in the toad gave out. Another trip blown. The cost of the starter was justified because it was so old but only had 110K miles on it. But it destroyed the trip. Two for two. Parts for my dodge are not available in Mexico at all.
Wednesday. Trip No 3. Car stays at home. Seventy dollar bus trip and a friend is ferrying me across the border. BUT WAIT! This time a new in-tank carter electric fuel pump awaits me at the PO Box. I even wandered over to Francisco Nava's repair shop. Lined up an appointment.
I'm sick of Breakdown Maintenance. I could have bought a Hung Chow special for a third the price of a Carter. But I know in the rear, I mean end, I would end up paying 10 times the difference.
It all depends on a person's prerogatives. Mine include minimum money and hassles.
