Battery Recondition

[AlexT]

I still have the original battery in my C4S which has a production date of early 2003 and in-service date of 7-2003. The car is always plugged in with the 2 amp float charger whenever it's parked in my garage. I put on about 2k miles in the Hill Country over the past weekend. Totally I have 21k on the clock now.

When I start the car hot, I notice the engine has a hard time cranking over and some times it takes 2 cranks to start the car. I got worried. So I start to monitor the volt meter. It used to hit high 13s near 14 when driving and starting voltage is close to 13. Now it hovers at below 13 when driving and starting voltage is now 12 even. Not good.

After getting home, I plug in my Black and Decker charger that has the battery conditioning function. It ran for longer than I expected of a day and a half, then it went into charging mode for about 1 hour.

It worked. No more cranking problem. No more low voltage. :thumbsup2:

Just wanted to share.

[SyN]

where did you get the black and decker charger?

[duracellttu]

Interesting. This is probably a good short term solution but you will eventually need to get a new battery of course. Since you dont have many miles on the car you battery isnt getting stressed like a daily driver would. The batteries ability to hold the charge (the chemicals in the battery) will get to a point where even charging it for a day wont help.