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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Fulshear, Texanistan
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera View Post
The biggest difference I see in batteries is "in the old days" a battery just got weaker and weaker and weaker gave you lots of warning it was not going to last much longer. Now that just DIE 100% in an instant. The last 7 or 8 batteries I have had were fine one minute and dead the next. I have had some that die so completely that even with jumper cables attached they will not start the car.

......The first sign I have that a battery is not perfect, I replace it. I would rather waste a little money up front than be stuck in a parking lot again.
My experience exactly. the first time the battery hesitates when I turn the key, it gets replaced asap.
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74 911 Coupe
2.7L - K21 Option - S suspension
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