[AT] Rewinch batteries

[Alan Riley]

The best battery I have ever had is the one that came in my 2003 Toyota
Tundra.  It was made by Exide and has a Sept 2002 date stamped on it.

When the battery was 9 years old, my wife refused to drive the truck again
until I replaced the battery, so I went to Advance Auto and bought their
Autocraft Gold 84 month pro-rated, 36 month free replacement  battery.
My Ford 1520 tractor needed a battery at that time so the original Tundra
battery went into the tractor, where it is still going strong.

The Advance Auto battery in the truck lasted just 28 months before having
to be replaced under warranty.

Alan



-----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 7:49 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Rewinch batteries

Interstate might be ok for some folks and I admit I haven't used one
in many years but when I used to be on the road about 40,000 miles a
year the guy that serviced my truck carried Interstate batteries and I
NEVER had acceptable service from them.   Seemed like I was constantly
buying a new battery and at the time I was trading trucks about every 3
years.  I should have never had to buy one at all.

The hands down very best single battery I ever owned was an Autozone
Duralast Gold
I used that battery in a truck for a couple of years, took it out and ran it
in a tractor for
a couple more years.  That tractor didn't have a good alternator on it so I
would just
run on battery until it got low enough the tractor wouldn't start and then
charge it up.
Then I took it out of the tractor and it sat around in the yard near my fuel
drum where
I used it to run a transfer pump.  It would sit for weeks or months in all
kinds of weather
in all states of charge and it just kept on taking a charge and doing fine
until last year
when it started not holding a full charge.  I tried to rehab it with that
cycle on my
battery charger but it didn't work so I finally used it as a core to buy a
new battery for
one of my tractors.  I can't even remember how long I had that thing but at
least 10 years.
I think it was just a fluke that it was that good and lasted that long.
I'll probably never
be that lucky again.

Charlie