[DML] Re: question about battery life

["supermattthehero" <supermatty@xxxxxxx>]

I have a DieHard gold in my 98 Malibu, and I've drained that thing
probably 5 times completely flat and it's still working wonderfully. 
I remember reading a car-battery comparison awhile back and it said
that DieHard (out of all of the ones they tested) were able to endure
the largest number of deep cycles before being destroyed.  I think the
number was around 12 cycles?  

Matt
#1604


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Henry" <henry@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> This summer, I had my battery replaced with a DieHard (no comments,
please).
> 
> This winter, my car sat for several weeks at a time, through some
below zero temps. At the time, I didn't know it, but the rear parcel
shelf light was stuck on, so the battery was entirely drained.  It
took about 30 minutes of a jump to get the car started and the battery
re-charged.  Since I didn't find the light on the first time, it went
through this cycle twice... basically like this::
Summer:NEW--->Winter:drained-->freeze-->charge-->drain-->freeze-->charge.
 I had the car out yesterday for a couple of hours, and it was running
very well, and the battery seems to be holding the charge.  
> 
>     Should I be concerned that the battery has been damaged?  Is
there any way to tell?  Or should  just take it back to Sears to test
and replace if there is a problem? 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -Hank




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