welcome back to Steve Robb reviews it's the middle of February last night was
just screaming called colder than a nun's cricket bat and I'm telling you what this
baby back here my 2002 Chevy Silverado well she didn't quite crank over as good as it should the
batteries four years old today I'm gonna explain to you why you don't ever buy a battery for any
vehicle especially a truck if you live in the north by the ratings in the catalog completely
throw that catalog right out the window and I'm going to tell you why in a minute let's go over
here let's test this battery and I'll explain how this all works okay the first thing we're
going to do is we're gonna look at this battery and right off the bat the green dot on your right
hand side there so that's November 2014 I'm not too sure if you can make this out or not
there you go eight hundred cold cranking amps and cold cranking amps at 32 degrees which is
zero one thousand cranking amps the battery for this vehicle if you look in any catalog
for a replacement battery will be roughly six hundred cold cranking amps and lucky if you'll
see seven hundred why you should disregard all that let's get to it right now okay I hope you
can see that twelve point eight guys I put my battery charger on this all last night this is
a little back of character I like to use and it's called C Tech it seems to work fine and
guys I'll tell you what it's charged all the way up as possibly as you can get and we're going to
put my battery analyzer on it and we're going to take a look at the cold cranking amps that
it has now remember this battery is four years old let's get to it okay I hope you guys can see
that right there that's showing twelve point seven six that's a fully charged battery and
cold cranking amps I'm gonna pick 800 because it is well below 32 degrees or freezing I'm picking
800 cold cranking amps 657 657 is a little ways off from 1000 cranking amps at 32 degrees and
it's also off for 800 cranking amps at below zero so why does that make such a big difference well
I thought I'd come in the shop here guys so a little bit warmer in here today's outside
but yeah why does that make a big difference I'll tell you what I've been buying batteries
for over 40 years and every battery I've ever bought exhibits the same condition the older it
gets the lower the cranking amps seem to go over time so when you go looking around for a battery
especially if you live in a northern climate I would not recommend buying any battery that they
suggest buy what the manufacturer puts in as the standard battery in my particular case 600
cranking amps no way if that would have been a 600 cranking amp battery 4 years old I'd be
lucky to get that truck started yesterday because you know what it just won't cut it when it gets
down to about 350 400 cranking amps when it's that cold no way Jose so if you're looking for getting
the battery for your vehicle and you live in a northern climate and it's cold I suggest you get
a thousand cranking amp battery that way there after about four five or six years tops you're
going to get a battery that will still turn your motor over in the winter so thanks for joining me
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