EverStart Batteries Any Good?

 I can't complain I put one in the truck about four years ago and it works fine. Now my Jeep battery went dead and guess what? It has an EverStart battery in it. No big deal though being it had a 5-year warranty on it, and it would be 5 years old in June. So, what if it was a few months before the warranty ran out? So, it died, and the warranty is still on the battery. But even if I took it back which I can't because I don't have the receipt nor am I the one that bought it. Even if I did the battery would be prorated so I'd still lose money and would get a new battery for nothing. If it would have lasted till June, I wouldn't have gotten anything at all.

So tomorrow I'll be going to Walmart and buying a new EverStart battery, but I'm only getting one with a three-year warranty.

The battery pictured above will be the one I'm going to buy. The Jeep has been sitting now for over a week waiting for a new battery. I have noticed or at least thought a few times it didn't sound like it was turning over as fast as it should, sounded a little slow. Then a few weeks ago I was using the winch to pull a tree over but when using the winch, I didn't start the Jeep because the winch was only going to be ran for a few seconds at most.

So I pull the winch line out connected it to a rope I had tied to the tree and went to take the slack out which was very little, but doing so the battery died on me, what the hell? I left the Jeep sit for a few minutes then tried starting it, it did turn over enough to start and ended up I didn't need the winch anyways.

After that I drove the Jeep a few times to different store and it started every time, but after it sat out here for about a week when we went to leave, the battery was dead.

The only thing I don't like about the EverStart battery is you can't check the water level in being there is no removeable caps to check the water. When I remove the old battery, I'm going to take a look just to be sure. The was my first thought when the battery died, maybe low on water? Of course I couldn't check it.

The bad thing about that is if your electrical system is over charging and you don't know it, the water in the battery will go down and you will never know it and with the plates in the battery exposed your battery will be ruined.

So, the plan for tomorrow is to go get a new battery and a few other things then when I get back home, I'll put the battery in the Jeep and make sure it starts, then tomorrow take the Jeep for groceries. It's always easier using the Jeep for the grocery run being you can just open the back and load/unload them. With the truck you need to get in the back door to get them out, and of course if you put them in the back of the truck you can end up with groceries all over the bed of the truck.