Car batteries: Walmart any good?
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From: me on 23 Jul 2007 16:21 "Proctologically Violated��" <entropic3.14decay(a)optonline2.718.net> wrote: >It used to be that batteries died a slow death. >You could *hear* that it was time for a new battery by the cranking, and not >by just getting effing stranded. Glad you brought this point up I agree that al my batteries die VERY suddenly!! One day it was fine... but next day won't even turn the starter over What gives? and why did it die in the summer? just curious
From: me on 23 Jul 2007 16:22 "Warren Weber" <hiview(a)bresnan.net> wrote: >Wal >Mart is close by yep that's EAXTLY why I bought a Walmart battery this time... close by no mater where you are
From: me on 23 Jul 2007 16:23 "Warren Weber" <hiview(a)bresnan.net> wrote: >Replaced with a Wal Mart >deep cycle Marine battery works great. End of rant. you put a marine battery in your car?
From: Scott Van Nest on 23 Jul 2007 16:57 I have had a cheap WM battery in my classic mustang that sits more than it drives going on 5 or 6 years now. it goes dead once or twice in the winter, give it enough charge to start the car, drive it for 30 minutes and the battery is back to life. I have been concerned how long this battery will live for the last year or two. Scott <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:q6q9a3hbqvp5pos596c2tn3dd54kbahugo(a)4ax.com... > My battery in my Mazda died the other day. > > Strange, I've never had a car battery die in the > summer. Its always been the winter when low temps and > load is present. > > Anyway..... I bought a replacement battery from > Walmart cause it was an emergency (no time to shop > around). > > Are their batteries any good? > > What brand/model car battery IS good?
From: Steve on 23 Jul 2007 18:26
me(a)privacy.net wrote: > "Proctologically Violated��" > <entropic3.14decay(a)optonline2.718.net> wrote: > > >>It used to be that batteries died a slow death. >>You could *hear* that it was time for a new battery by the cranking, and not >>by just getting effing stranded. > > > Glad you brought this point up > > I agree that al my batteries die VERY suddenly!! > > One day it was fine... but next day won't even turn the > starter over > > What gives? Most batteries used to fail when the plates would get "swiss cheesed" to the point that not enough lead was left to make a good connection, or a single cell would sulfate so badly that it wouldn't contribute its nominal 2 volts to the total and you'd get a "10 volt" battery for a while. Now, they have better plate separators, thinner plates, and it tends to be a catastrophic failure of a plate interconnect that kills the battery, and those are "all or nothing" failures. > > and why did it die in the summer? Most batteries do- summer is far harder on them than winter, actually. |