Twelve year-old battery finally gets weak

Ed in KC said:

I picked up my brand new F-150 pickup in early May of 1998, and the original battery has lasted all these years. It had become a contest with me, just to see how long the battery would last, and last night it finally had a long drawn-out pause when I started it, not dead, just weak, so I put a new battery in it today. That's the longest lasting battery that I've ever had.

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NuggettuggeN said:

You should contact the manufacturer and maybe they'll use your story and get paid too.

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Don said:

I have a 99 F-150. In 2007 I put my first battery in it. I now have 215,000 miles on the truck, and it still looks good, and is going strong. Uses a quart of oil maybe every 2000 miles or so. And I'm one that never went for the "you need to change your oil every 3000 miles thing". I have always changed oil in that truck every 5000 miles, and it hadn't hurt my engine.

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