BarneyZ

For those of us that bought your car new or near new, how many months before you had to replace it?

bearphoto

My 2014 Z51 battery lasted two years, replaced free under the C7 warranty.

My 17 Z06 battery is only 1 year old, still fine.

dvilin

My 2015 Battery 36 months now and fine. Should note it is always hooked up to battery tender when sitting in the garage.

JerryU

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

trivette

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...

eboggs_jkvl

2014 died last fall. Was on a battery maintainer for it's entire life with me.

Elmer

aquavettes

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.

Flame Red

Delco OEM battery lasted a little over 2 years and died with a dead cell even though always on a battery tender.

Kevin A Jones

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.

Gvnski

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.

eboggs_jkvl

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...



Elmer

robert miller

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

smajicek

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

eboggs_jkvl

Yer a dead man Bob. Put a set of jumper cables in yer wallet next to the condom!

Elmer

Greg00Coupe

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.

4thC4at60

Daily driver so no tender - 57K miles - bought car ('15 model) in December '14 - car starts fine with original battery.

VETJAZZ

4 years old. Original battery. Never on a tender. 22,500 miles and no issues.

robert miller

Corgidog1

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.

Kevin A Jones

Re-read my post as I didn't say "all" as a battery can fail for any number of reasons or even be defective upon purchase just as any other product sold.
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.