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DWSTANG67
07-29-2014, 03:39 PM
Has anyone had a motorcraft last less than 2 years ?

I replaced the battery Nov 2012 been working good until June where i accidentally killed it, charged it back up good to go. The other day it was dead, I think I left the trunk open a little, i charged it up overnight and i only get 10 volts, sounds like a dead cell. I jumped the car and got 14 volts with car running ran for awhile, and you guessed it when i shut it off it was dead, under 10 volts.

A little puzzled that the battery would go not being that old. hopefully a new battery and i can still make New Hampshire
whitey
07-29-2014, 03:50 PM
Your alternator will pump ~ 14v into the battery, but if the battery's cells are too far gone, it will never hold another charge. Killing a battery twice might have been the death of it.

Now gimmie some of those bitcoins...:D
JOEMERC
07-29-2014, 04:37 PM
Doesn't matter if you left trunk lid open light will shut off in short time ,its called a battery saver same if you left doors open for a while will turn it self off till you close door and reopen it .
RF Overlord
07-29-2014, 05:10 PM
Your alternator will pump ~ 14v into the battery, but if the battery's cells are too far gone, it will never hold another charge. Killing a battery twice might have been the death of it.^^^This^^^
Hg M75
07-29-2014, 05:48 PM
I'm still running my original Motorcraft battery from '04 in my sport.
DWSTANG67
07-30-2014, 10:57 AM
GOOD NEWS

I removed battery last night. Charged up and load tested and the battery failed again, like i thought it would. So today i took the battery to ford to get my replacement battery, because they have a warrenty for 36 months. I told them the battery is bad, they started with we dont know that we need to test it on are test bench. I just laughed ans said whatever it will not hold a charge and fails the load test.

An hour later the service manger says your battery is dead here is your new battery free
cat in the hat
07-30-2014, 11:08 AM
:up: !
ChiTownMaraud3r
07-30-2014, 11:18 AM
I'm still running my original Motorcraft battery from '04 in my sport.

I too was running my original battery, in my '04 Marauder until this April.
fastblackmerc
07-30-2014, 11:38 AM
I'm still running my original Motorcraft battery from '04 in my sport.

Good luck... you do know it will fail at the most inopportune time.
Bigdogjim
07-30-2014, 12:05 PM
GOOD NEWS

An hour later the service manger says your battery is dead here is your new battery free

Was his name Randy?
DWSTANG67
07-30-2014, 12:54 PM
Was his name Randy?

No It was the older guy Brian, witch i had an argument with him about a year ago, over the issue with getting a key for my sons car. So we dont get along
Ms. Denmark
07-30-2014, 12:56 PM
That's good news, Dean! We're not doing NH without you. :P :D But Eric does have jumper cables just in case...

See you soon!
DWSTANG67
07-30-2014, 03:59 PM
Not out of the woods yet, I have some issues going on, one. Issue is I had my car up on jacks all day to put the new kyb rear shocks on and the mount kits say they were delivered yesterday but I never got them , that was just one issue. I have to play this one 1 step at a time hope to see everyone tomorrow
Bigdogjim
07-30-2014, 05:45 PM
Not out of the woods yet, I have some issues going on, one. Issue is I had my car up on jacks all day to put the new kyb rear shocks on and the mount kits say they were delivered yesterday but I never got them , that was just one issue. I have to play this one 1 step at a time hope to see everyone tomorrow

Well as a back-up to a back-up you can ride with me?

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