Re: Battery lifespan

On Mar 5, 7:19=A0pm, Moses Lim
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> wrote:
> Had to change the battery on the 04 Lancer ES today. First time since
new.=

> NRMA bloke told me that a normal battery for me car has about 350amps
and
> my one was reading 88amps. So time to change.
>
> I was also told by another fellow that a 3yo battery is due for
replacemen=
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> anyway. I tort they lasted a bit longer than 3 years, say 8years or so?
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> am I too optimistic? :)
>
> I can't stop trolls from getting into this post but I am genuinely
> interested in battery lifespans in a motoring sorta way :)

When I first had to change the battery in my 1989 Hilux it was the
year 2003. I took it out and it had 10/1989 written on the side of
it :-)

The next one I put in it got stolen a year later, and the current one
has been doing the job since then. I don't expect it to last much
longer, although my kms:engine-starts ratio is fairly high.