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Old 09-17-06, 02:05   #20 (permalink)
Eliot Ness
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Originally Posted by twopu
.......The battery is six years old and winter is coming. Should I change it in the winter or just hold off?
Your battery is probably very close to the end of life. It has been *my* experience that before the "maintenance-free" or "low-maintenance" batteries you could tell that a battery was slowly dying. With the new batteries you get in the car and head to the store and it starts just fine. 15 minutes later when you go to leave the battery won't turn over.

It's your call on if you replace it now or later, but if it were me with a 6 year old battery, and I was going to the trouble of pulling the cables to clean them, I think I'd go ahead and replace it before winter sets in.
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