My Battery Died today! It was 16 years old - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

PanzerSD · #11 08-29-2009, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by kingdoc1

How did you determine the age of the battery? What did the date code on the side say? A battery with a date code ending in 3 is much more likely to be 2003 than 1993. Normal battery life is 3-4 years, 16 years is unlikely.

I agree, but if a battery is properly maintained, and a vehicle is stored mostly in a garage through the cold months, I've seen batteries last 10+ but these days, the maintainance free batteries I never expect to last more than 3-4 years.

a GOOD replacement for the batteries is the same batteries in the 04-current Chargers. it's the SAME battery, I'm not sure who makes them but there are alot of parts in those cars bade by Bosch and Behr and lots of (K) logos and VDO. Sizeable chance the batter is Bosch.
I'll look next time one of the police cruisers is in the shop and see if it's Bosch or not.