Damn, Jon:
The original battery in my '95 lasted 20 or so days short of FOUR years!
I was astonished. While it doesn't get cold here, the summers are sure
hot and I expect that puts some load on the battery as well as cold. Four
years on a replacement battery sound pretty good.
Do you check the water level frequently? Hopefully the underground
parking will help some.
Richard in San Antonio
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 07:26:56 -0600 "Jon Winkelhake" <jon_w@tjhale.com>
writes:
>O.K. Dakkers, I have a general question. I went out to start my Dak
>the
>other day, when low & behold the battery was dead! Didn't leave the
>lights
>on, it ran fine the day before, and the voltmeter on the dash was
>straight
>up in the middle where it always is. No problem, had a new one put in
>and
>all is fine.......well sort of.
> This is now the THIRD battery I've had to replace in the
>truck, in only
>67,000 miles! The (factory) original went south after only a year of
>driving
>highway miles, and the second one that just quit made it about 4
>years. Now
>I'm on my third, and starting to wonder if this is a case of a bad
>string of
>batteries, or if anyone else out there has had the same problems?
> FYI - Up until recently, the truck (unfortunately) has never
>been garaged
>(my wife & I have always had an apartment), and when we got married we
>moved
>to Chicago, so it's been through 4 winters there, outside the whole
>time.
>Since we've been in Milwaukee, we've had it in underground parking
>now. Any
>input would be helpful!
>
>Jon W. (jon _w@tjhale.com)
>'94 CC SLT V6 5sp
>
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