I'm still not worried about it. I live in a very urban area. Griffith is considered a suburb of Chicago and there are auto part stores like there are McDonalds. It ever decides it don't wanna start I always carry jumper cables and if anything else make a quick phone call to a friend or family member and I have a battery. I very rarely travel out of a 50 mile radius of where I live and rarely hit the expressway. I work less than 2 miles from where I live and I have another car anyways. I know to many it might sound dumb and that I'm penny pinching ( which is true) but I'm trying to get the most bang for the buck. I'm only 20 years old and don't make as much money as most and I have college loans to pay for as well. I'm sure most of you where in my situation when you where my age. I don't skimp on oil changes or anything else for that matter. I plan to have my battery tested before winter comes along and if it turns out bad then I will buy a new battery.

 

Battery Replacement - Interstate MTP-91

If ya wait you will likely experience strange problems with your car before it dies.
Also jump starting these cars can be risky with all the electronics.
I changed mine in Feb. 2009 after reading many threads which discuss all the problems with batteries that begin to fail before they actually die completely.

 

There's your problem right there! Moar batteries!! Moar! Kinetik High Current Power Cells add three of these and u won't run out of juice till the end of time! My battery seems to be doin fine in the 2004 coupe, but hard to judge since I do have the 600 in with it. 1300 CCA=overkill? NEVER!

 

Thanks Gary! I like that battery... I have always used interstate batteries in my cars and that one is cheaper and better than most I have looked at. 700 CCA is plenty enough and all I have been looking at are 600 CCA for about 10 dollars more than the price of this one.

 

My roadster was built in May 2004...still has the OEM battery in it too... 80,000 and still clicking every day...

 

No mine's white too...can still do manual distilled water added in mine. Has blue lettering ...yeah mine too...

 

Mine still has the original battery in it. It won't be a problem if it doesn't start unless it dies at the Dragon.

 

If you are unsure how old your battery is, or if it is the original then you can check the manufacture date codes on the battery. These are 2 letter codes linked to a series of numbers. They have a simple alphabetic formula, for example a 2003 battery is N folowed by the month letter from A to M, thus Feb 2003 will have NB.
2004 series start with P,
2005 R, 2006 S, 2007 T.
Don't ask me why they miss some letters out.
My OEM Varta has RA code Jan 2005 and car registered June 2005 so I think I will replace soon. Hope this helps, especially if you are a new owner.

 

Good thread for battery information:
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...o-we-have.html

Changed mine at 75,000 miles, interstate MTP. Good luck!

 

When you change the battery in a XFire do you need to plug a jumper box into the lighter to save all the settings or can you do like the old days just reprogram the radio and nothing else is hurt?
Thanks
Joe

 

I had my battery unhooked for a week & 1\2 while Tighed1 did the resolder on the RCM and the me - so - horney mod in Feb of this year and when I reattatched the battery cables all of the settings were still there.

 

Yeah, when I replaced my battery I didn't lose any settings either.

 

The original battery in my 2004 just died. I got 90 months out of that thing. Amazing.

 

Dec. and mine still going strong in the Crossfire. The battery in my truck is a 9 year old Duralast from Autozone, But I have to admit that I started to carry one of those jump starters just in case - my sons, he doesn't need it because he is in basic training.

 

My original battery is still going strong as well. Even with the temperature in the single digits it fires up right away. The battery will be 8 years old in January.

 

I'm wondering if those of you who boast that their battery is older than dirt will man up and admit that the battery failed in the middle of the night, driving home on the freeway in the middle of the worst snow storm in years.

 

The first day it decides not to start is the day I get a new battery. Have the funds set aside just being tight.

 

Yes I'll tell you if it does. I won't go out west next year with it though. I have some limits

 

The wise thing would be to buy a new battery when it's on sale rather than waiting until the old one goes out and having to pay full price for the new battery.

 

If you have already set the funds aside you are not being tight, you are being dumb. Buy the battery and keep yourself from getting stranded.