How long did your factory battery last?
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How long did your factory battery last?
For those of us that bought your car new or near new, how many months before you had to replace it?
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My 2015 Battery 36 months now and fine. Should note it is always hooked up to battery tender when sitting in the garage.
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My battery always had a low voltage (~(12.4 V.) However never gave me trouble but did not want to go through 4 winters so replaced it with an AGM that was on sale last summer! Planned on keeping the Z51 for 5 years but decided "I Needed" a Grand Sport so sold the 2014 and bought a GS!
I never did use a charger. Never had an issue. However I keep my street rod on a charger all the time. That Optima battery is now 8 years old!
Changng batteries in a C7 is not as easy as a C6 etc. This is a PDF of my install: http://netwelding.com/Battery_Issues.pdf
I never did use a charger. Never had an issue. However I keep my street rod on a charger all the time. That Optima battery is now 8 years old!
Changng batteries in a C7 is not as easy as a C6 etc. This is a PDF of my install: http://netwelding.com/Battery_Issues.pdf
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My early '14 (delivered Oct 4, 2013) still has the original battery. I always keep it on a maintainer when it's not going to be used for more than a day or two. I may buy a new battery this Spring before I take it out of storage as a pro-active measure. With several trips to races planned for this Summer I don't want to have issues on the road in the heat...
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2014 died last fall. Was on a battery maintainer for it's entire life with me.
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MY 2007 had the original battery in it when I bought my 2014 new in April 2014. Still going with the original batt in the C7. Both were ordered by me, so both had/have the original batteries.
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A quality battery such as GM provides in C7s should last 5>6 years "IF" car's charging system remains in good condition and battery is connected to a tender when not in use.
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My 2015 Z51 OEM battery is now 38 months since I bought it, doing great!
I never use a maintainer or disconnect the battery for long sit periods.
I have had two sit periods of over 30 days while on vacation, no maintainer,
and many one to two weeks and the car starts without a problem.
I never use a maintainer or disconnect the battery for long sit periods.
I have had two sit periods of over 30 days while on vacation, no maintainer,
and many one to two weeks and the car starts without a problem.
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Still on the factory set up here 2014. I hook up the batt tender to it most of the time.. Now that I have said this it will go out now I am sure.. Robert
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still on my original since march 2014 drive it everyday so no tender never needed. plus I live in california sunshine state. lowest temp where I live was 37 a couple of times
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I hear ya on the temperature and it is important to use a trickle when stored...........BUT the biggest drain on a battery...... pun intended is warm temps not cold.......especially one that lives in a hot trunk over hot tailpipes.
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Daily driver so no tender - 57K miles - bought car ('15 model) in December '14 - car starts fine with original battery.
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My C7 will be 3 yrs old in April and still have original battery-I use battery tender when not driven for more than 2 weeks and I only have 5300 miles on the car so that may add to the future life of the battery.
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Seems that post #6 may challenge this hypothesis. Batteries can croak at any time just because they want to croak and **** you off. How long your battery will last is a crap shoot. I've had 7 years; I've had 1 year. They like to fail at the most inopportune times too, just because...
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My statement above is based on my owning/operating a chain of auto parts stores for years where I sold and warrantied literally thousands of automotive/truck batteries not based on one battery failing prematurely.