Great News Mopar Battery Turbostart

marcus cardwell said
Glad to hear you ae interested. well with any battery if you take care of it and properly maintain the battery it will last a good five years or more. we have heard of them lasting up to 10 years . There is just a lot of variables that can strike at anytime to ruin a battery . Just use a good AGM charger and tender and it should last a good while . Thanks

Wanna hear a story about a lasting battery? Daddy bought a Die Hard for his 65 Falcon in 1973. They put it in at the old Sears Auto Service center in downtown Macon. The kind of battery that had the DIE HARD logo cast into the battery with colored plastic. Super cool lookin old battery. "About" 1981 "or so" He was gettin skeered of it even though it regularly busted the Falcon off with no sweat.

He told me he was going to get another battery for it. I had an old 69 Chevelle at the time and it's battery was weak, so I gave him that one to trade as the core and took the Die Hard. Fast forward to "about" 1995. Die Hard was now in a 65 Valiant, 12:1 360. "I" was now "gettin skeered" and was talking to my high school best friend and expressed worry about the battery. He gave me the core charge because he wanted it for a decoration in his shop. Dumped the electrolyte out and let it dry out good. Kept it several years on his shop work bench.

We just talked the other day. He needed a battery for an old truck he just bought. Uh huh. He bought a six quart box of battery acid, filled the old Die Hard, charged 'er up and you guessed it. Good as new. Now, I will say this. When I got it from Daddy, I dumped it out, hosed it out with a high pressure garden nozzle and got all kinda crud out of it. Filled it with fresh acid and charged it. When Kirk dumped it out, he rinsed it out the same way before he let it dry and sat it on his work bench. We think the rinsing it out probably had a lot to do with it. Neither of us ever remembers a time when it ever had corrosion on either terminal. I don't think it ever did. As of today, it does not. You just don't see things last like that anymore.

We call it the miracle battery. I don't think it will ever die. If it ever does, it will be a memento on Kirk's work bench for the rest of his life.