Bill Roper's Journal

So the problem wasn't with the battery per se, but rather the battery specs.... Mum has a 400 of a slightly different vintage, and her battery lasted 6 years. I've found that it rarely hurts to get a battery slightly-to-much larger than OEM specs for CCA, regardless of manufacturer. Then again, I lived in Houghton for a decade, where the default is to replace the OEM battery with a larger one as soon as it dies, if not sooner; and grew up with a 'recovered farmer' who did the same....