Cherokee needs a battery

[8ntruck 8,095]

Our 2019 Jeep Cherokee needs a new battery.  Voltage readings on the current battery are lower than I'd like and a load test comes in low. 

 

This will be battery #3 for this vehicle.  If the battery gets too bad, the computer shuts the vehicle off.  The safety codeing in the car won't let you bump the trans into nuteral and re start the car while rolling - got to be at a full stop to do that.  Not convient when this happens in traffic.  I'm going to replace this one before it gets to that point.

 

What with all of the electronic gee gaws in this vehicle, I'm planning on going with a glass mat type of battery.  Back when Sears was healthy, I had good luck with Die Hards.  Since then, I've had good luck with NAPA and Interstate batteries.

 

What are youse guys (and gals) running in your daily drivers?

 

[ebinmaine 74,161]

IMHO  - if a vehicle needs two batteries in 6 years I'd be looking for a good quality battery maintenance system that's constantly plugged in.  

 

 

[lynnmor 8,034]

NAPA and Interstate batteries are simply high priced stickers placed on whatever is available batteries, find batteries made by East Penn, Duracell at Sam’s Club is one of many.

[953 nut 61,650]

You shouldn't have to replace batteries that often unless there is a problem with the electrical system.     Some sort of draw while it is not in use or a high voltage charging system that over heats the battery.

The Advance Auto battery in my wife's car is over six years old and going strong. My 2009 truck had its first battery replacement about four years ago.  Both are DieHard Gold from Advance Auto.

[oliver2-44 10,921]

5 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

IMHO  - if a vehicle needs two batteries in 6 years I'd be looking for a good quality battery maintenance system that's constantly plugged in.  

 

 

@ebinmaine down South we don't get near the battery life most people get in northern climates due to the cooler weather.  

Back at work our large Industrial Battery supplier preached 70-77F. as the best temp for battery life.

If I buy just about any brand of 3 year car battery I get 32-34 months.  Same scenario on a 4 yr warrantied battery. (They try to get us returning for the tiny bit of warranty)

This is on daily drive vehicles, so a battery tender wouldn't help.

if I get 18 month/2 years out of a garden tractor battery I jump for joy! yes I use battery tenders on them!

Surprisingly, my 2014 Ford truck and my 2017 Chevy RV got 5-6 years out of the factory battery.    

But the local dealers can't get that exact battery.

 

i have a friend who live here all his life, them he moved to the Colorado Rocky Mountains, lived at 8500 ft.

He was amazed how long his vehicle batteries suddenly lasted. 

[Handy Don 14,493]

22 minutes ago, oliver2-44 said:

down South we don't get near the battery life most people get in northern climates due to the cooler weather.  

Heat is aways the wild card in any chemical reaction. Look at how hard the EV makers are working to extend battery life using internal cooling during both charge and discharge. 

[Achto 29,674]

Optima batteries used to be a top of the line product, with a top of the line price of course. In 2019 they were sold to a company in Mexico. Not sure on the quality of them now.

[wh500special 2,308]

If the Jeep has idle-stop I wouldn't be surprised if you're required to use that AGM battery you're considering.   They better handle the more frequent shallow discharge/recharge cycles.

 

(I realize this loosens the lid on the idle-stop can of worms, but there's no need to remove it completely)

 

I don't have any specific recommendations, although the Odyssey AGM battery in my boat is showing no signs of slowing down and it's 9 years old.  It was quite expensive when I bought it.

 

Steve

[Beap52 1,569]

Interstate Batteries are what I've been buying.  I've only needed one warrantied (lawn tractor) and it was handled with no questions asked.  Of course I'm dealing with local folks. 

 

My wife's 2016 Dodge Durango needed new batteries this past spring.  We replaced the originals with Interstate.  Why a SUV needs two batteries baffles me. It seems these two cost in excess of four hundred dollars. I wonder if having the batteries stored under the passenger's seat helped with longevity?  

 

I had a fellow tell me one time that most batteries were produced by two or three manufactures. He also stated that cheaper batteries had thinner plates inside thus not as good of quality.

 

Back in 1977 or so, I came out of a movie house and found the battery in the El Camino was dead.  K-mart was adjacent to the theater so I purchased "a long as you own the car lifetime battery"  It was pretty expensive as I remember.  K-mart replaced batteries for many years.  The replacement batteries were usually cheap ones.  I still have the El Camino but no longer getting batteries--I don't even think there's a K-mart anywhere near here.  I don't remember if I kept the pile of paperwork associated with the K-mart battery or  not.  I'll have to look sometime.

[ClassicTractorProfessor 5,425]

My feed truck and our good pickup both have Interstate batteries in them, but only because of convenience, as we sell Interstate at the shop where I work and I didn't want to make a 60 mile round trip to buy anything else. Both of the other pickups and all of the tractors have the cheap batteries from Atwoods (a farm store we have here similar to Tractor Supply), can't remember the brand name off the top of my head but I know they're cheap. The group 65s for my 6.0 F350 were right at $100 each, and oddly enough I've had better luck with them than I have the Interstates we sell at work.