Dead Battery : (

Nov 22, 2004 8 Replies
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My '66 beetle sat for 2 weeks, battery worked fine. fixed accelerator cable ( it was broken ) and tried to start it... DEAD. Jumped it- started right up... let run for 1/2 hour. next morning - dead. jumped it, let run for 45 minutes, drove to work. after work... dead. HMMMM 13.6 volts when running so alternator is good. took battery of unknown vintage to Autozone - since it had an autozone battery in it. tester says its a bad battery. ok, give me a new one. $65 later and 2 minutes to install it... it works great. Funny how just letting it sit for



2 weeks killed it. but I think it was about 6 years old.
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We had a '95 Previa with the original battery in it. Left the lights on at a drive in one afternoon for lunch, and had to go over to the AutoZone to get a new one. Up to then, it hadn't seemed to be in that bad a shape.

It happens to everyone. (We had no idea that the battery was 8 years old, we had just bought it.)

Charles of Kankakee

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6 years is quite mutch for the battery:) isn't 13,6V to low? my alternator gives 14,4 and i think that's the most corect value. am i this right ?

-- Tomasz Antkowiak antek VW 1500'66 Brown Sugar pl.misc.samochody.garbusy GG 7772401

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one time i took a volt reading it was 13.6VDC , another time 13.9VDC, but the alternator is of unknown vintage also.

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Previa as in Toyota Previa? My parents bought one brand new in early

1991, and the battery on that lasted until last summer - 12 years !!! It worked perfectly until it gave up one day in a supermarket car park.

-- Howard Rose

1966 VW Beetle 1300 Deluxe 1962 Austin Mini Deluxe 1964 Austin Mini Super Deluxe
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If you really want to know, they are usually datestamped on the body...

-- Howard Rose

1966 VW Beetle 1300 Deluxe 1962 Austin Mini Deluxe 1964 Austin Mini Super Deluxe
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Yes as in 95 Toyota Previa L/E SC. The dealer thought SC stood for Swivel Chairs.

We had the battery tested when we bought it, and it passed the test then. Guess that last deep discharge was one toke over the line.

Charles in Kankakee

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Yes they are date stamped Look on top and usually you will see about

2 letters and two numbers,,, They will start out with the Alphabet A thru L.. Which "A" means January, "B" means Febuary all the way to L=December. Then you will see a number behind that letter, if it has a " 9 " that means it was bought in 1999, 0 = 2000 and so on. Now for warranty purposes "IF YOU HAVE A INTERSTATE" battery there is no reciept required. If your punch out days are within a 6 month range of the stamped day you can get it adjusted anywhere. I have heard of some places not adjusting the battery just because you don't have the Month and year punched out. So If ya take one in just make sure its within that six month stamp day. MT-34 works great on a bug, low profile. Let me correct myself on the Group-2 6-v, It has a hi-profile top post, not good. I'm trying to remember the battery that works good,,something, something-17, brain fart. ANYONE? Burp,,,,,tony
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