what battery are you using?

[SVT98t]

Last sunday, i left the car radio on for 11 hours while we worked on the tranny in the marauder. and it fired right up. it also helps that i have the radio hardwired to the battery.

[87CrownVic]

Those "green dot" AC Delco batteries are quite a gimmick. They were designed to tell you when the battery is discharged due to internal failure. The major problem is that the "green dot" is only present in one cell of the battery core, and the standard automotive battery contains 3-6 cells which can in fact fail independantly of each other. Yay for AC Smellco. I have found Remy batteries to be a Godsend. I have never had one of probably 12+ of their batteries I have bought/acquired fail in anything from my Harley, to my dad's boat, to my Crown Vic. I have run them dead to 0.0V on occasion and charged them fast for 20 mins right back to 13.2V. I have also foolishly ran them bouncing around without proper hold-down brackets and in vehicles with weak charging output with no diminished capability or sulfation. If you need a REALLY dependable battery for something you care alot about, check out www.remybattery.com. Their Harley Davidson OEM replacement gel-cell batteries are downright awesome for what they cost too.

[85crownHPP]

Ive left my stereo on too for 8 hours or so with all three amps running (not super loud) and she fired right up after....

[87gtVIC]

I remember you writing that somewhere. lol

[Lincolnmania]

lol When i visited Scott, we took the F-?50 Parts hauler to Harrys. It was a rainy overcast day. We got there around 12 something and got out of the yard near closing time (5:00pm). The truck lights were on the entire time. I thought to myself "we are so fucked" but that truck turned right over. Then we went out to eat and what do you know? we left the damn lights on again. I forgot the name of the battery, but it sure impressed me to say the least.

it's a deka second

[visionmercury]

i have optima red tops in my mercury and sunfire and a yellow top in the escalade. mainly for the warrety factory

[1987cp]

A warrety factory? Do they manufacture quality warreties there?

[86VickyLX]

I am using Duralast batteries right now. I am not really happy with it. It does not hold up well in the winter at all and the battery is practically brand new. I believe it is a bit to small to turn my car over. I will be upgrading to a gold topped Duralast before this winter.

Yeah, what scott said. I can personally confirm this. Vicky used to like to drain the battery when the car needed to be started. The starter would moan. When I had the starter replaced when the transmission was rebuilt, I noticed faster starting times, and less draw when the car was being started. Same thing when I replaced the starter in my dad's truck. That truck would never start easily.

[ltdcrwnvic]

ive had nothing but bad experiences with auto-lite, exide, and ac-delco batteries...but then again i dont think you guys blast your system all god damned day like i do lol. this one time i went through 3 brand new exide batteries in a matter of 5-6 hours...i wanted to see if they would put up with my system being turned all the way up(engine off of course)...and they didnt. so recently i was having issues with my battery(was dying out again) and went ahead and bought myself a nice(expensive) yellow top optima. ever since ive had it, i leave my system turned on full blast while working on my brothers cv and when i go to start it up....fires right up....love that thing!

[1990LTD]

There's an old Energizer in my car right now, must have been put in by the old cat I bought the car from. Anyway, I can't for the life of me get in to check and change the water level.

Are car batteries just a case of needing to buy one big enough that it'll power all of your stuff?

[87gtVIC]

There's an old Energizer in my car right now, must have been put in by the old cat I bought the car from. Anyway, I can't for the life of me get in to check and change the water level.

I dont know if that batteries are designed anymore to be tampered with like that.

[ltdcrwnvic]

wow, i remember those days when i used to pry open the little tops to the battery and check the water level....lol....use to fill 'em back up with.....what was it?.....distilled water only? purified only?

[cld783]

wow, i remember those days when i used to pry open the little tops to the battery and check the water level....lol....use to fill 'em back up with.....what was it?.....distilled water only? purified only?

distilled or purified i guess...

some battery's are sealed and some are not.. I would say the mass majority of people that drive have no idea you can add water anyway

[1990LTD]

I dont know if that batteries are designed anymore to be tampered with like that.

This is an older battery and I'm pretty sure it is, but I can't get the damn caps off to check the level.

[1990LTD]

Are car batteries just a case of needing to buy one big enough that it'll power all of your stuff?