I've had the Walmart 1yr batteries last over 6 years.
They just don't like to be fully discharged.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Dave Mcneely
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 9:16 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Battery question

If the battery has only a one year warranty, it's not much of a battery,
and I would expect it to fail at or soon after the expiration of that
warranty.  So, for $30 or $40 more you could have gotten a five or more
year battery, which if not abused would in fact last the five years
warranted.  Hmmmmm.............. .  Dave MC

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Doug Noganav wrote:

> Thanks, good info.
> I ended up at wally's because it was only $65 for the group 41 750cca.
> Its
> their basic battery with only 1 year replacement.
>
> You can tell when you lift it up that its not super heavy like some of
> the
> higher warranty group 41s.
>
> I have found most batteries to be good as long as you do not do what I
> did
> to my old one and run it flat with a radio left drawing. It created a
> bad
> cell according to AAA who came out and tested it. After that it would
> not
> hold a charge well.