The vendors have batteries setting on a shelf.  The age of the battery is ..................... ??  But, if the battery is a year old, as the original poster stated, then it should be still under warranty.  mcneely

---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>   I'd say your battery is getting weak.  Being a relatively new
> battery....that doesn't necessarily mean it is still a good battery.   I've
> had newish batteries go belly-up for no real reason and had to replace
> them.  I try to buy batteries that have a decent replacement warrantee,
> because I've needed to replace 3  recently  and one brand new one was also
> very weak, right out of the store.
>
>   Be a skeptic when you have it tested, too.  Many auto parts places just
> 'spout out' whatever they feel like without really knowing how to test a
> battery properly...or they have crummy test equipment and don't use it
> correctly.
>
>   Don Hanson
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Annie Anderson <lsandrsn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks.
> >
> > Having some trouble with cold weather starting problems. Every time the
> > weather gets cold, the van will not start. The battery dies and it has to be
> > jumped.
> >
> > Anyone have ideas what might be the cause? I'm getting very irritated with
> > this issue.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > ~Annie
> > Sent from my iPhone

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David McNeely