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Battery life 200 1990

posted by  someone claiming to be tjerry on  Fri Jan 16 09:49 CST 2004 [RELATED]

Ok so I moved to Florida back in late June, and I have made some interesting notes about car battery life. Please let me know what your thoughts on this are.

My car has been in Vermont/Northeast for it's whole life 13+ years and the battery is dated 1995. I have never, repeat NEVER had a problem starting the car (of course there was that one time I left the parking lights on for 2 days...) anyway, I started it when it was -50 outside last year and there was no problem. Now that I am here in Florida nobody seems to have heard of a battery lasting 8 years. They even tried to convince me that the heat was worse for the battery than the fricken cold temps back up in the mountains of VT. They said they'd been lucky if there battery lasted 3-4 years. I'd always been told that cold was the battery killer.

Just as a side note I have an Interstate battery with a 50-month warranty (4yr2mo). Should I be looking into a pre-emptive battery replacement, or just let it go another few years. The battery case looks good with no bulges or anything.

Any thoughts on temp/battery relations and brand name recommendations?






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