Went to start my Thunderbird today for the first time since last october. Battery was dead (I mean completely dead), so I took it out of the car and put it on a charger. Waited a little while, it was charged, so I take it back out and throw it in the car. I cranked it for a few seconds to circulate some oil and it was already starting to slow down just from that :disappoin So I figure I might as well get it started, I start it and it's running really rough, so I shut it off to check the plug wires and such. After that it wouldn't even crank over enough to restart :brick: thing! Well, it was due up for a new battery anyway, but I didn't think it was THAT bad.
I swear if it's not one thing, it's another...
That's what you get for owning a 19 year old car ;) .
Actually that's what I get for having a 5 year old battery :slap:
I just found the receipt, I had no idea it was that old! (bought it in dec 2001, used to be in my Mustang) On the plus side, since I found my receipt, the battery is prorated for 72 months so I'll at least get a little bit off the price of the new battery :)
Well then that's good. I just replaced the battery in my Tbird. It was a 60 month Exide.....that was put in the car in 1998. It finally died:hick:
It's not that the battery is 5 years old. It's five years old AND sat for 6 months.
My current battery was put in the car in Feb of '99 and has a 7 year guarantee. It's 2 months past it so it should out on me ant day now!:hick:
The Optima in Layla is 6 years old and out-lasted most of the cars it's been in.
The battery in my dads Chevelle lasted 1 year and a week. Most of which in storage. It wouldnt even charge.
Actually, it's 5 years old, and it sat for 6 months, and it went dead before i put the car in storage (car sat for 2 weeks and drained the battery somehow), and a few months before that I ran it dead a couple times right after I got my new engine built by cranking it so much. So yeah no wonder.