Would you want to travel to an out of the way location with a 1 year
battery that was three years old?  Seems penny wise and pound foolish to
me.  Especially when modern batteries seem to give little or no warning
before failing absolutely.  But, to each his own.  For me, I'll spend
the money for a better battery.  Dave Mc

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:39 AM, pdooley wrote:

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