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Average life of the stock battery?
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How much are yellow tops?
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More than an Odyssey and half the life. Thank Johnson Controls for that one.
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Just about 3 years. Warranty. 2020 XLT
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34 months to the day but it was a fight.
"Battery is fine you just don't drive it enough" "Our tester showed a healthy battery multiple times" "ASS needs many different conditions met before it works, maybe you aren't holding the brake pedal down hard enough."
Told them I didn't care what they did or how they fixed it I wanted the ASS to work on a test drive and wouldn't accept anything else.
A new battery was the only way they could make the ASS work after 2 days of trying (to bullsh!t me) everything else.
"Battery is fine you just don't drive it enough" "Our tester showed a healthy battery multiple times" "ASS needs many different conditions met before it works, maybe you aren't holding the brake pedal down hard enough."
Told them I didn't care what they did or how they fixed it I wanted the ASS to work on a test drive and wouldn't accept anything else.
A new battery was the only way they could make the ASS work after 2 days of trying (to bullsh!t me) everything else.
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I will confirm that a battery getting weak will make the Auto Start Stop not work anymore. Had it happen on a F150. It took a bit to get a failed code for warranty to be happy, but it got taken care of
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After a long trip, I had the ASS work again for a short time, then after the truck setting for few days it stopped working. So I agree that it needs a strong battery. However, I use a battery maintainer every so often and the battery doesn't get low so who knows what is happening. It's the original battery in five years and it never has quit on me.
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Getting 5 years out of the Original Battery is pretty good when you get down to it
RedlandRanger
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5 years and 2 months for me - still going strong. I've not had any indication the original battery was failing - yet. I know it is coming, though.
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Because you said it it's definitely coming
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Actually 5 years for an AGM is short. I've got a red top Optima in my sports car and it is over 10 years old.
I bought a new AGM for my 2019 Ranger last fall. ASS stopped working so I thought that the battery was on it's way out and it would probably give up the ghost over the winter.
Didn't happen. The truck can sit for over a week and will still start. I tried charging the battery (with an AGM charger) and ASS will still not work.
I think the problem is that AGM batteries have a slow degradation over time. They fall below the threshold that the ASS algorithm wants, but they are still quite usable in all other aspects.
I bought a new AGM for my 2019 Ranger last fall. ASS stopped working so I thought that the battery was on it's way out and it would probably give up the ghost over the winter.
Didn't happen. The truck can sit for over a week and will still start. I tried charging the battery (with an AGM charger) and ASS will still not work.
I think the problem is that AGM batteries have a slow degradation over time. They fall below the threshold that the ASS algorithm wants, but they are still quite usable in all other aspects.
RedlandRanger
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Do you keep your sports car on a trickle charger? I keep my 73 Capri on a trickle charger/battery maintainer all the time and that battery is over 10 years old - still going strong. I don't drive it a ton (500 miles a year or so).
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Knock on wood, my 2020 is still on the original battery.
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My 2019 died within 18 months and when tested had 2 dead cells. After getting it replaced under warranty I bought a Ctek battery charger and that one was still going strong 2.5 years later. I don't drive every day and most of my commutes were less than 10 miles so the battery never got fully charged. Then add in our high heat back in AZ and it's a batteries worst nightmare. lol
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