![]() Not knowing what else I could do, I pulled the 6 month old, Wal-Mart 700A hour battery and headed to the local )'Rielley's. So, I put the tools away, and once again, it wouldn't start. To make a long story short, I started checking, battery voltage 13+, I cleaned all the cables, ended up replacing the (new) Ford style remote solenoid, and it started right up again. It stalled when I tried to back out of the garage, and then wouldn't start again. That seemed weird, but I let it run long enough that it'd idle (there's no choke on the Holley carb), and put the charger away. So, I put my little charger on it, and in about 5 minutes, it fired right up. I'd had the ignition on a couple days ago trying to get the brake lights and turn signals to work (the lights in the trunk lid had bad grounds, which makes for wonky lighting), so I thought maybe I'd just run the battery down and it hadn't been run enough to be charged up. Got in, hit the key, the starter went, "CLUNK". Yesterday I was going to go for an afternoon drive in my "new" '62 Impala. Back when a lot of batteries were shipped dry and you had to fill them with acid we always charged them before installing them and had little trouble with them then. stick the charger on it for a while before you hook it up in the car. That may be the key for going to the store and getting one and bringing it home and installing it. Like everyone else their batteries have doubled in price in the past couple of years a I just bought one for my OT truck a couple of months ago.īack about 50 years ago when I worked at a Firestone store in Texas we charged every battery we sold for a half hour before we put it in the vehicle and had very little trouble with the batteries we sold out of that store. I can't say they are any better but one year on the way to Bonneville I rolled into their store in Baker Oregon at 07:00 before they opened and told them that I had battery issues and what store I did buisness with with my battery papers and left the truck and went next door to the cafe for breakfast and when I got back they had the new battery in it and all I had to do was sign for it and go. I've had fairly decent luck with batteries over the past 40 years but have bought most of them from the same tire store chain that has stores in just about every town in the Pacific north West. If I need to replace it, it will be the 1st one in for least 5 or 6 batteries. ![]() I may have to get it replaced under warranty. The coupe has been sitting since that battery charge, I have to move it tomorrow to mow, I'm wondering if its going to start. I had to set it on boost before it would take a charge, but after a few minutes I switched it to the 30 amp charge and left it on the battery for an hour and a half. I jumped the car, then put the battery charger on it (I have a 30 amp charger with a start boost). A few weeks ago I went to move it so I could mow the area, and the new battery was dead. The car has sat most of the summer, this year. ![]() ![]() This spring I had to install a new battery ($125), the old one was about 6 years old when it died. My coupe sits outside in the cold during the winter months, and is not usually started from late fall (end of Oct) until spring (mid March), but it gets lots of use through the driving season. They have the batteries based on warranty length, I but the 60 month batteries and nearly always have made it past the warranty time. Some of those batteries have lasted well over 7-8 years. I've had pretty good luck with them over the years. I buy all my car batteries at our local Farm and Fleet store.
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