Who"s Had the longest living battery??.

Ahh, the good old Baliant. I owned a VG two door, a VH sedan, a VH wagon, a VH Charger, A VK ute, a CH Chrysler by Chrysler sedan (aka The Limo of Love) a 1965 Phoenix and a 1968 Phoenix.

Doesn't surprise me one bit Axle. Great, great vehicles.

well my brother in law purchased a ht holden wagon new back in 69/70 and still had the same battery in it 13 years later.i will say that he was having starting in cold weather but he put up with this for about 6 mounths.it can get very cold at mtpt.frost to-6 .i would have replaced the battery well before that but then again i get very grumpy if the engine has not started as i walk towards in the carpark.(stupid car). sorry to waffle on.roger.

We got 12 years out of the battery on the Mrs' KE30 Corolla. The battery was in it before she bought it second hand so who knows?

Now I've seen it all :-) Someone actually owning up to having owned more than one Chrysler product :-)))

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Marrickville Mercedes :-))

Thats a good run.......the single mum across the road only seems to get a few days out of her batteries.....must crank it to often!

Cheers
Stefan

I got 7 years out of a Yuasa Overlander 4WD battery

Dunno if the two Centuries I have now will make it to that age

The greek mercedies. I have some anecdotal evidence to say the valiant must have had by fluke a long lasting batt. I did a tafe course in mechanics (10 years ago), the teacher in the battery section said he say a valiant once get 14 years from a batt and it was ok. He was saying it should be replaced in case the car brakes down (end of the world), I say leave it untill it brakes down.

When my dad was still alive many moons ago he was blaming me for stuffing up the battery on his series 1 Landrover (farm car), when we sat down we worked out the batery was 20 odd years old. It was an old rubber cased unit with bitumen between the terminals, he neither did apologises for blaming me!

I have an 90 mod EA falcon S pack purchased new 17 years ago and yes it has the original battery. It is nearly seventeen years old now with only 210000 on the clock and regularly serviced . not bad for a ford product.

Yep the old black rubber batteries last a long time. The one in the old mans Holden Premier lasted over 20 years. And that was starting the V8 Chevy. He whinged and complained when the new one only lasted 18 months!

Steve

Axle,
My parents have a 1993 Mercedez 400 SEL V8 which still has the original battery. It is like a 4wd battery in size and lives in the boot. The car has electric everything and yet the original battery is still going strong.

Rob

Well mine's the best so far 40yrs it's been in the car, i bought the car 34yrs before it was released and still have it today.

Baz.