On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 09:45 +0100, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
> >The number one non abusive killer of car batteries is heat. If 
> >you live in a climate that has extremely hot summers it can be 
> >"normal" for a battery to be gone after only 4 years.
> 
> In my experience the killer of batteries is the cold.  This makes batteries less efficient right when they need to provide the most current to turn over engines full of cold thick oil.  In the UK, if a battery is going to fail the odds are it will go in winter. Sales of new car batteries over here rise sharply over the winter.

Actually, the cold will simply expose a battery at the end of it's life,
the cold by itself won't shorten a battery's life.

Heat is a killer of car batteries.

> IME over 5 years is fairly exceptional for a battery these days, and the "budget" replacements will likely last little more than half that.

Well, I can't explain that. In Canada 5 years for a battery is the
minimum, no matter how "budget" it is.

And we get cold winters. My 6 year old battery started my car in -30C
this winter without issue. I'd say this'll probably be it's last year,
but we shall see.

TTYL

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