Well, I decided I wasn't going to play the warranty jousting with Ford over replacement of a couple of crap batteries with new crap batteries. My hold-down brackets on the passenger side began corroding recently so I quickly got a pair of Odyssey 65-1750T's on order. I first tried to order from Autozone, but like Rodney, I found them to be out of stock when they canceled my order after a few days. Despite paying a good bit more, I ordered through Amazon and one arrived yesterday. The second one should have arrived at the same time, but for whatever reason they weren't delivered together. #1 is installed now with a freshly painted hold-down bracket. Hopefully, #2 will be here today as an empty battery tray is waiting. P.S. I have the Medium Duty Battery package on my 6.2 XLT.

 

Good work Kyle. I found when replacing my OE leaker with the dealer replacement that the new one was leaking only a couple weeks later. So, the AGM route is justified. What I don't understand is why this is a 2017+ issue? The 11-16 trucks don't seem to have this issue... at least not to the extent of how many failures I'm seeing on the current gen.

 

Great question, but now that I think about it, I believe I've only had one OEM battery in all the vehicles I've owned that didn't eventually leak (2004 4Runner - Panasonic battery).

I have no experience with the previous generation Super Duty as this truck replaced a 2004 Ram Cummins (great truck!). On that Ram, the stock MOPARs lasted about six years, but by the time I caught the corrosion, it had taken out my passenger side negative cable.

IMHO, Ford completely took the cheap road on the battery selection for these trucks. In this day and age, there's no reason to not install sealed/maintenance free AGMs from the factory.

 

My driver side just started leaking as well on my 2019 6.7 Im going to replace it myself after reading all this on the factory batteries.

 

Wife had 2008 Toyota. 4 Runner. OEM Panasonic battery. Couple of times dead because lights left on. 10 years, never a problem. Could not believe it. Finally replaced as wife's car and did not want her stranded. If my vehicle, I wanted to see how long it lasted. Great battery.

 

Yeah, that Panasonic was a great battery. I replaced it at about six years and 100k after some slower starts. If I charged it periodically, I probably could have gotten a lot more out of that battery.

Looks like my second Odyssey should arrive today.

 

I checked my batteries yesterday. Both are leaking. The driver side battery was replaced under warranty about a year ago. I had to clean and repaint the hold down at that time. It was quite corroded.

 

You making the jump to Odyssey Jim?

 

watching, I have 7 years on my batteries and have been shopping for ideas.

Brings me to another idea. Wonder how the battery choice you have made Rodney would hold up in a 5th wheel?

 

I ran AGM's in my 5ver Scott but not Odyssey. I went with a pair of Lifeline 6v units that were an amazing deep cycle battery. Like Odyssey, they were big bucks though.


Lifeline Batteries

 

Thanks, I have a 12V diehard in there now that is showing its age, so was thinking a group buy.

 

I too run Lifelines in my TT. Like Rodney, I agree they are a great battery for this application.

 

The LifeLine GPL4CT is their smaller 6v unit. I ran two in series. If you don't need that type of capacity they also have 12v units that you can run as a single. I always had the intention to add two more but didn't really boondock enough to need the additional capacity and loose the storage space. On an RV I love AGMs as you can build a bank anywhere and not worry about venting.

 

True. I run a pair of 12v group 29's, IIRC. I also keep them on a high quality desulfating charger when not in use.

 

That's the plan, but I'm going to clean up the batteries so I don't have to hurry to get them replaced.

On my RV, I'm going to build my own LiFePO4 battery bank.