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Originally Posted by Icer006
This is exactly everyone's point except some still don't get it. My 3 year or less interval was an example...and it's an interval where it's the owner's preference; also depending on climate and usage.
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Yes, we are agreeing.
I worked in a garage years back, and we sold 36, 48, and 60 month batteries. They regularly failed at 34, 46, and 58 months. The customer with the most expensive battery would come in with a failure at 58 months, and get 2/60ths off the price of a new one. He invariably felt like he put one over on the battery company, that he had won something, as he got to claim on the warranty. To us, it amounted to a 3% discount on a battery sale. We didn't even claim it off the battery company, it wasn't worth the paperwork. Incredible how the battery companies could calculate deposition rates and get them to short out just before the warranty sticker ran out. Yes, running batteries very low, or brutally cold winters, could affect the failure date, but the percentage that failed just before the warranty was up was incredible.
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