car battery

Post by **abscate** » 28 Oct 2021, 01:11

Each of my two VWs is on their second battery from 2002/2003

Battery maintainers on both

SirBrickWagon · Post by **SirBrickWagon** » 02 Dec 2021, 09:30

how ironic. my battery no longer holds charge adequately enough for me to start the car. will be replacing soon

Post by **abscate** » 02 Dec 2021, 12:05

SirBrickWagon wrote: ↑02 Dec 2021, 09:30 how ironic. my battery no longer holds charge adequately enough for me to start the car. will be replacing soon

Yeah, you should not have posted that. Batteries have the potential to hear..or read I guess.

Post by **volvolugnut** » 02 Dec 2021, 16:39

abscate wrote: ↑02 Dec 2021, 12:05
SirBrickWagon wrote: ↑02 Dec 2021, 09:30 how ironic. my battery no longer holds charge adequately enough for me to start the car. will be replacing soon
Yeah, you should not have posted that. Batteries have the potential to hear..or read I guess.

They also lurk on the internet forums.
volvolugnuty

Post by **MoVolvos** » 02 Dec 2021, 18:18

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Sears, Kragen, Walmart, Orielly now Costco. Last winter replaced the 84 Month Costco unit on our 03 Odyssey. Just over 7 years but since it rarely gets driven decided to change it out just in case it was the only car home and someone needed to use and it wouldn't start.

Costco batteries are now 36 Month non-prorated. Had to use it twice already due to them going weak too quickly from sitting which the older units didn't have a problem with. Perhaps the least expensive and no hassle warranty batteries around.

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Post by **erikv11** » 02 Dec 2021, 21:20

I think I would have kept the old 84-month battery and put it on a maintainer. Those can easily last 10 years. Better unit, much cheaper than a 36-month battery, and you'll have the maintainer for other purposes down the road.

Post by **pgill** » 03 Dec 2021, 14:52

SirBrickWagon wrote: ↑02 Dec 2021, 09:30 how ironic. my battery no longer holds charge adequately enough for me to start the car. will be replacing soon

Can you be more specific?

Your first post on this thread was 5 week ago.

How was the battery assessed?

What were the results?

Post by **MoVolvos** » 03 Dec 2021, 16:30

erikv11 wrote: ↑02 Dec 2021, 21:20 I think I would have kept the old 84-month battery and put it on a maintainer. Those can easily last 10 years. Better unit, much cheaper than a 36-month battery, and you'll have the maintainer for other purposes down the road.

As soon as I got back home I realized the mistake. The battery had a no start a year prior due to that one extreme cold morning but didn't have a problem after jumping it. The core was only $15 so should have had the foresight.

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SirBrickWagon · Post by **SirBrickWagon** » 06 Dec 2021, 13:38

pgill wrote: ↑03 Dec 2021, 14:52
SirBrickWagon wrote: ↑02 Dec 2021, 09:30 how ironic. my battery no longer holds charge adequately enough for me to start the car. will be replacing soon
Can you be more specific?

Your first post on this thread was 5 week ago.

How was the battery assessed?

What were the results?

battery was assessed when i first created this post to be just in the range of poor. unfortunate, but i think all the jumpstarts i needed after my battery drained overnight since that one time i left my cabin light on overnight might have done something to the battery. it's all good though as i will be replacing it soon

Post by **scot850** » 07 Dec 2021, 10:32

Had a call from a Volvo buddy in town here. His 2000 V70 NA was throwing a bunch of coil issue codes and car would not start. It then started eventually and ran fine. Told him to bring it over and we could check it out.

First thing we did was check the battery voltage as we know how they don't like low voltage batteries. Battery only read 12.2V. When he tried to restart the car when still warm the battery would not even turn the engine over.

I heard that these cars need a minimum of 10.9V to start. As many of the long timers on here know electrical is not my strength, but I keep hearing that low voltage is an issue, but I think it is low current that is the issue. At 12V the car should turn over.

I asked him how old his Volvo battery was. He thought not that old until we found the date code. 2010!! Not only that it had sat for about 3 years in a garage after being removed from his son's crashed car. Fortunately he had a new one in the trunk as a back up for cold weather. Swapped it over and engine burst into life. All is good! Wish all issues were that easy to fix!

Neil.

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