Charged Up

[billroper]

The report from the Meineke (which is a shop that I trust) is that the battery has a dead cell which is what's causing the current problems. (No pun intended.) They say that this problem is endemic in these cars, because these batteries are underpowered for the car and eventually give up under the strain.

A new battery with more capacity is being installed as I type and I should be able to pick it up before lunch.

Comments

[jennlk]

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....