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That's good to know! I don't know how much difference it makes but I'm in Denver and we get several days of below zero weather during winter and the battery I replaced had 500 cca and I presume the rebuilt battery I got has similar. Walmart used to have a budget 51R car battery with 230 cca that...

Not around here. The battery that fits my Element costs $149.84 (Everstart Maxx 51R) at Walmart and $109.99 for a 51R Interstate Battery from Costco and I can't find one any cheaper anywhere else. All the auto part stores want more than $149 and everywhere else as well that I have priced. Where...

This is what my battery did. Everything working perfectly, starting with no problem. Then last week I get in to leave and battery is dead. I throw on the charger/maintainer. It charges it up. Next day after taking it off charger, it's dead again. Charge again, drive around for 15 minutes. Next...

It say "for optimal operation" but I called and they said it can be used on a dead battery but of course it wouldn't even activate on my battery.

I'm not very familiar with dealing with car batteries but the cells looked that they were filled with metal shavings so I would guess that means they were heavily sulfated?

OK, well that explains it! I recently bought a Noco Genius 10 battery charger with repair mode. It won't even activate the repair mode. I've actually never tried the repair mode before this so I don't know how well it even works.

I have a 5 year old Walmart Everstart battery in my Honda Element. it was no longer holding a charge. It would charge up but then it would drain right after I took the maintainer off of it. I checked and the cells looked low to empty so I added distilled water and now it won't take a charge at...

Originally Posted By: DdDd Meh 3k/yr I'd do two year oil changes and never look back. Those engines do like to burn oil and develop interesting leaks (ask me how I know how lol) so that's no excuse to not check up on your oil levels semi regular like. Timing chain will go even if the levels are...

Originally Posted By: silveravant What does the owner's manual say? Mini's recommendation was 1 year or 15000 miles . I've read that starting in 2012, Mini lowered that to 1 year 10000 miles. Since I will never drive either of those distances in one year, I guess my question is, should I...

I have a 2008 Mini Clubman S with very low miles that I only drive for pleasure. I only put about 2 to 3k miles on it a year. I change the oil on it yearly at the dealer with their Mini approved synthetic oil. I recently had a mechanic there tell me that I could go to an oil change every 2 years...