Rev up your engines, eventually car batteries go bad, how do you decide how to buy the right one for your car? At a time batteries didn't cost that much, but these days it is a pretty big deal, look at the prices, they're not giving them away, so in this particular content, I'm going to give you a little battery lesson which helps you to choose right types of battery for your car.
There was a time when batteries were naked, they were vacuum-sealed. You have to break the vacuum seal, then fill them with acid when a customer needed a battery, and they were vacuum sealed for a reason.They had an indefinite
shelf life that way. Today at the factory, they're filled with acid. So they start to deteriorate the minute they're built and the acid is put in, now filling the batteries with acid at the factory is not a good idea because they start to deteriorate.
If you look closely, you can see this one is made in Korea. So fill it with acid in Korea, then they ship it on a boat here to the United States. It can take a long time between it being made and you actually install it in your car.
Sometimes you have seen that particular brand of battery sometimes they last a year or two and that's it, because of this, in a sensed battery are kind of like eggs. Now all batteries are dated, this is an easy one to read. It just says 8/13, so it had been made 8 of 13. So when you're buying a battery, look at the date and don't buy one that's more than one or two
months old, because it's deteriorated. So you want to buy your batteries from the place that sells a lot of batteries. Now don't be fooled by some of these chain stores, where they have a pyramid of batteries sitting there, some of those batteries are in that pyramid for months, and they're not going to last long.
Always check the date of your battery, then comes the question, do you have to buy A battery that features a removable top where you'll add battery water, or should get a sealed one that you simply can't add battery water too. Now, this decision depends on you because if you're the type of person that's never going to check the battery water, buy one of the sealed batteries, of course, they're not perfectly sealed. They still have vents to vent some gas, but the smaller vents.
They'll lose water a lot slower than a non-sealed battery, but they will eventually run out of battery acid inside, then you got to replace the battery. The open style batteries, they got tops you can take off, and you can look inside and check the water level.
So if you're diligent like that, you can add distilled water when it gets low, and these batteries will actually last longer, but if you aren't diligent. They'll last a shorter time, so that depends on you. Whether you're going to check the water or not, now there are other types of batteries out there you can use it lasts a really long time, its lithium-ion battery, not lithium-ion but lithium iron phosphate.
Now it's an entirely electronic battery with no acid in it at all and it's about 100 bucks and it works great in a motorcycle, but due to manufacturing process and economy of scale. The ones for cars cost a whole bunch of money. Generally, only racers use them, because here's a lithium iron phosphate battery for a car, and it starts at six hundred and twenty dollars.
So odds are you’re getting to be buying a standard battery for your vehicle, but if your vehicle comes with a more modern battery like this absorbed glass mat battery, it is a good idea to still use an absorbed glass mat battery when it's time to replace it because your charging system was designed for such a battery, these batteries do cost a little bit more, but they still have acid in them. The same rules for buying them apply as with regular water acid batteries, so the next time your car battery goes bad, you know how to replace it.