On 6/19/2012 4:15 PM, Frank_v7.0 wrote:
> I live in Arizona and batteries get worked pretty hard. I'll go 4 years
> and replace. It depends a lot on your "climate". Consider it
> preventative maintenance.

Here in NH it is not unusual to get 10 years from a battery. The battery
in my wife's VW Cabriolet is 13 years old and that car starts up like a
rocket (sure, I know it may die at almost any time, but so far so
good...) The battery in my Dodge truck is 8 years old, gets beat because
I plow with the truck, and still is going strong (I give that one a year
more perhaps!)

Climate is the main factor, colder climates make a battery very happy,
hot ones bake it to death in a few years.

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