What is the average life of OEM Battery?

[Jims Mongoose]

Anyone from the dry hot state of Arizona please post your experiences.
My car is too young to kill the battery yet, but I'd like to know.


Jim

[Iron Lung Jimmy]

Mine lasted five years almost to the day.

[Aequitas & Veritas]

Mine almost lasted six years and needed to be replaced last month.

[MLL67RSSS]

Originally Posted by 1KillerSS

When I lived in Florida my OEM's lasted about 3 years max, the heat really played a toll on them. Seems though up north the weather is kinder to them.

Originally Posted by garyw

depends on where you live, look at the responses of the people close to you. here in houston 3 years is average.

Originally Posted by Jims Mongoose

Anyone from the dry hot state of Arizona please post your experiences.
My car is too young to kill the battery yet, but I'd like to know.


Jim

When I lived in Phoenix lasted about 3 years as the other hot climates posted above. Usually be fine one day, the next day try to start it and a cell or two would short.

[myold88]

Originally Posted by 1KillerSS

OEM is good, I personally like Interstate Batteries.

I changed my battery on my '10 SS with an Interstate battery after 35,000
miles and 5 years. perfect fit, great warranty and exactly $200.00.

[Low Saturn]

A couple days ago I found that the battery in my 2011SS was manufactured in September of 2003. On the CPO inspection paperwork it shows the battery was replaced when I bought the car. Yeah, replaced with a battery that was over 10 years old at the time.

And the funny thing is, it tested good when I was tracking down a starting issue.

[htoniv]

Guys, what were the symptoms that ur battery was failing?

For me i left in without starting for about 2 months, we had some heavy snow and cold weather latey in NY

So, i am able to start the car by jump but the lights keep flickering dash, radio, door light) and somtimes even go off for 1 sec and come on, feels like car is stalling

I left it on for 2 hrs, and drove around 20 mph for about 30 minutes i reached about 6 miles , and soon as i parked and turned the key off and pulled it, the car went dead. No power at all

Any help would be appreciated.. is it my battery or something else? I know volt reading is not that great but i tested it out and it was low

[Low Saturn]

Probably a bad battery. Also, letting the car idle won't really charge the battery much. You have to get those rpm's up so the alternator can charge the battery.

[TooCool5]

I plan on getting 8 - 10 yrs like previous GM's I owned.

[Rock-It Man]

Originally Posted by htoniv

Guys, what were the symptoms that ur battery was failing?

For me i left in without starting for about 2 months, we had some heavy snow and cold weather latey in NY

So, i am able to start the car by jump but the lights keep flickering dash, radio, door light) and somtimes even go off for 1 sec and come on, feels like car is stalling

I left it on for 2 hrs, and drove around 20 mph for about 30 minutes i reached about 6 miles , and soon as i parked and turned the key off and pulled it, the car went dead. No power at all

Any help would be appreciated.. is it my battery or something else? I know volt reading is not that great but i tested it out and it was low

Here's lots of useful information about maintaining your battery with a Battery Tender, and figuring out whether it's still good.

http://www.batterytender.com/Frequen...ions/#answer20

It's possible that your battery will recover, but if you've been parking it for the winter without a battery tender for a few years, it's probably time for a new battery.

[1KillerSS]

Originally Posted by Low Saturn

Probably a bad battery. Also, letting the car idle won't really charge the battery much. You have to get those rpm's up so the alternator can charge the battery.

Actually the RPM's don't really matter, there is a clutch system like your A/C compressor. Once it reads a certain voltage it cuts it off to prevent overcharging. Put a voltage meter on it and you'll see that the amount of power coming from the alternator does not change with your RPM's

[snymat68]

Mine is only 2 yrs old, but it cranked'er over at -13°F this morning after sitting outside all night. Granted, it was a little slow, but it held in there for the 7 or so cranks it took the engine to kick off. I could just picture the frozen electrons trying to push through the wires.

[MLL67RSSS]

Actually the colder the conductor the less electrical resistance it has, if cooled to absolute zero it becomes a zero-resistance "superconductor." Too bad the cold has the reverse effect on the chemical reaction taking place in the battery that produces power.

[MLL67RSSS]

Originally Posted by htoniv

Guys, what were the symptoms that ur battery was failing?

For me i left in without starting for about 2 months, we had some heavy snow and cold weather latey in NY

So, i am able to start the car by jump but the lights keep flickering dash, radio, door light) and somtimes even go off for 1 sec and come on, feels like car is stalling

I left it on for 2 hrs, and drove around 20 mph for about 30 minutes i reached about 6 miles , and soon as i parked and turned the key off and pulled it, the car went dead. No power at all

Any help would be appreciated.. is it my battery or something else? I know volt reading is not that great but i tested it out and it was low

Be careful! The alternator and charging system isn't meant to charge a too-dead battery, you can burn up/damage your charging system. Sounds like your battery is discharged to the point where it needs to be put on a charger to try and recover.

Check out this link:
fact-alternators-are-not-designed-to-charge-dead-batteries