what is average life for batteries? I have interstate mega tron plus 85 month, purchased in feb 2011

 

All depends on if you fully discharge them a lot.

A battery will stay good for a long time when taken care of well, but if you put a huge draw on them and discharge them almost fully, it will screw them up.

I've heard to store batteries discharged, but I don't believe that would be a good truth to it.

But then the weird thing is, battery conditioners discharge batteries to recondition them.


Most bad batteries just require reconditioning. They will never be 100%, but the batteries most people replace are perfectly fine, just need to be reconditioned.

There should be some youtube video's on it.

I should go watch some actually.

 

Do you drive your truck daily? The thing about Interstate batteries is they really don't like to sit with a low charge. They sulfate worse than any other battery.

Richard