I know it was really cold yesterday but that's no excuse for my plow truck battery to not start the truck.
The battery is a O'Reilly top of the line 2 years old!. This is the one of the only things made in the this country, and I don't know why mgf. today can't build one that last for 8 to 10 years. I don't know maybe they don't take pride in their work use cheap stuff to put the battery together. Anyway I was able to plow I took the interstate from my tractor.

If they did that...then you wouldn't need to buy as many or another one.

A lot- not all batteries are manufactured by Johnson Controls and private labeled- O'Reilly's being one of those. Hot weather weakens batteries and cold weather kills them.

Batteries only last on average now about 4 years. They don't make them like they used too.

Plus a lot of modern cars have parasitic drains due to computers/microprocessors using power when the vehicle is parked.

Yup. My mechanic agrees.

363 days on this one , it is going back today

I have the picture from the day I installed it 1/17/2023

Walmart Max start everstart


whatever the warrantee for replacement is , expected life is 3 months more than that and they hope you make it past

Dad talks about taking the battery out of the GTO and into the office with him when he went to work in the bitter cold. Wouldn't turn the engine over if it sat outside all day. Course that was before it took 3 men and 2 hours to change a battery. Batteries take maintenance (even if they aren't designed for it nowadays).

It seems like battery's lasted more then 4 years in the 80s.

Like Cragar said, far less electronics on the cars back then, so the batteries didn't have to work so hard.

we didn't have a GTO but when we would go snowmobiling we would pull car batteries and bring them in the cabin at night on a charger.

when I was young my dad had a Chrysler New Yorker

also used to take metal garbage can lids put charcoal on them if the car wouldn't start let that burn down good then with the snow shovel push it under the oil pan

Had to replace one two weeks ago that only made it 4 months from Murdoch's. It tested at 225 CCA, but was supposed to be a 750. Last battery in that truck lasted 6 years.

Snow plow truck with an electric hydraulic pump or maybe an electric winch? That puts a lot of load on a battery and they don't last long.

Yup. In addition to the typical invisible loads, my 2017 Jeep Wrangler Sport turns the headlights on if you unlock with the fob. They stay on until the vehicle is started unless manually turned off. That is a completely unnecessary drain on the battery when it is under maximum load. Unlocking with the key doesn't light the headlights but lock from inside or outside with the fob and open with the key and the alarm goes off. I've learned to lock and unlock with the key from outside, just like I used to do in the 1970's.

I remember that

Plow trucks are hard on batteries. You are using juice faster than it can charge the battery with the plow going up all the time, wipers on and defroster blaring.

I have a battery charger with a 200 amp boost. Ten minutes on 40 amps then hit the boost and my semi will turn over. Haven't needed it this year for cold starts but when I do its sure handy. Has 2 amp trickle charge also. Since you guys brought it up think I will charge my boat batteries. Sitting on the floor of the kitchen pantry but been several months since they were charged.

I paid to much for diehard and decided to buy at Costco. Pleased with my choice.

They did. I've gotten 8 years out of some batteries back then.

Best I've heard of , a co-worker got 16 years out of the original factory installed battery on a late 80's Honda Civic. Car was always parked outside.

my dad has one of those old chargers about a 16 inch cube red box weighs like 40 pounds about 40 years old

I have a 2,10,40 with 100 amp boost for about 20 years but newer light weight computer controlled job and it has gone to giving fault codes about all the time.

I have gone the other direction I have a couple jump packs now keep those charged and they are easily portable short cables built right in

one has a charger built in which is very convenient only need a cord and plug it in , the other has a little transformer that I lose too often

they have saved me a few times , been really handy to help other people also no longer have jumper cables in every vehicle because finding someone to jump you is not easy any more , just pull the jump box out and self rescue

I remember a few combines go up in smoke doing that.