Dead Battery

Remember that awesome 850cc new replacement battery I put in a while ago....well....it died yesterday.

Noticed that it cranked kind of slow remote starting it yesterday morning.  Went to dentist, stopped at the Election Board and to see a new client.  It started back up all those time but I noticed on the last stop that my seat and steering wheel didn't return to my preset positions.  Hhhhmmm...odd.  No warning lights at all...nothing.

Drove home, parked it for a few hours and went to leave.  Dead.  Son of biscuit.

Got it jumped this morning and drove to the closest Ford dealership.  I was out of the 36 mo. full replacement so I was on the 100 mo. prorated portion.  56 months in and it was confirmed bad.  I was then told that the replacement would be full price if I wanted the full 36 mo. replacement or I could get a new battery prorated but the warranty would only cover the remainder of the first batteries time...44 months.  I took the latter option since I figured in 4 years I won't have the car anyway.  Still cost me $160 because it takes an hour and half to install batteries now.... ???

Probably could have gotten more time our of an Optima instead give what I had to pay for the first one plus this new one.


 
Sorry to hear about your experience with it, makes me glad I decided to go with an AGM for that price with a 3 year free replacement warranty
 
Personally I do not think Optimas are any better these days.  They used to have 7 year warranties, remember?

Almost 5 years - seems to me the MC battery did pretty good, would have been nice to get the 7 years out of it for sure tho.  Odyssey has a 4 year full warranty at nearly 1.5x the price, so ...

That install time is a pure ripoff.  Advance Auto or Autozone will have you in and out in 10 minutes or less.
 
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