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[getty150]

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[X5chemist]

My X5 has the Durcelll SLI49AGM. It went through a lot of abuse while chasing down a parasitic amp draw. The GMIII would take it down enough in two days to keep it from starting. I used a jump pack and overnight charging until it was fixed. Local price was $241.14 at Battery Plus three years ago. It carries a four year warranty. I would buy it again.

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[getty150]

Cold out in the morning yesterday in the 20s at the start since the start of this week. I attempted to start up the X, and a no go rapid fire clicks down to none, nada! This week was an experiment week for the Napa legend . Didn't charge the battery any and didn't park in the garage...out of the last 5 days. 4 year old AGM battery was holding its own.
Proceeded to pop in the O'Reilly Super Start (it's been off the charger for a week) no luck there in starting the X.
What was the problem...
Starter went belly up?
I ask the guy at the rebuild shop...can a strong battery burn out a starter?
He says no! And that an old battery is likely to make the starter work harder.
Had him test the starter I had in the que for emergency.
Says it's ready to go.
Left him the alternator to rebuild.
So you'll find me for the next day under the hood of the X.

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[workingonit]

Originally Posted by getty150

Cold out in the morning yesterday in the 20s at the start since the start of this week. I attempted to start up the X, and a no go rapid fire clicks down to none, nada! This week was an experiment week for the Napa legend . Didn't charge the battery any and didn't park in the garage...out of the last 5 days. 4 year old battery was holding its own.
Proceeded to pop in the O'Reilly Super Start (it's been off the charger for a week) no luck there in starting the X.
What was the problem....

Back in the '50-60's, my G'Dad wrapped his car battery with some pipe wrap/heating element he made in his garage, for use in winter, though I never saw the temperature staying below freezing much in those days (or now). In later years, I'd keep my car batteries unfrozen, by running the car/truck to operating temperature every 8-10 hours, to accomplish the same thing.

When I neglected checking on the state of the battery chargers in both my camping and my wife's business trailer during cold snaps, I found ruined batteries in both (2x lead-acid, and 1x AGM).

After that (around 2014, when I started using charger/maintainers religiously), I became diligent in making sure my chargers were working full-time, and I had insulating blanket material handy, if power was out (on the trailers), or I would run power from a generator to ensure battery warmth. And/or run the cars up to operating temperature, every once in awhile. It has only stayed below freezing for more than 3-4 days straight, once or twice since then).

While staying the night in the open-but-"under-building" parking garage at work, during ice storms, I observed the electric pipe wraps (similar to the one my G'Dad had made) on all the exposed pipes there. Meanwhile, I piggy-backed off the power source, to run a heater in my '09 HHR Panel (or in earlier years, the truck caps on my '76 Chevy C-10, '81 Ford Courier, or even while sleeping in the reclined seat of my '04 Chevy 2500HD (a regular cab, so not much so), or '69 Chevy C-10 (regular cab bench seat, a bit better).

I figured that I might want to wrap my car batteries some day, but never got around to trying that.

However, if I was living in the upper, colder climes, I would look into trying that. I'm sure the electric pipe wraps would work better vs charger/maintainers in keeping a battery ready-to-start, or vs going outside in a blizzard to run the car every few hours. Automotive battery warmers are available, too, but they cost much more than electric pipe wrap does. Just an idea.

[getty150]

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[getty150]

Experiencing 2 weeks of harsh cold temperatures down to like 24° especially this week we're not used to temps like this... anyways all batteries have performed exceptionally well! One crank and we have ignition. Never the less they go on the charger at the end of the work week. And I did purchase a jump pack if all goes well I'll be returning at the end of this cold snap.

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