My first red top died this winter in my 68 Shelby. It was I believe from 1987. Pretty sure. That is 22 years old.
The Pantera's is 8 years old and is as new.
I have one in my son's SVT Contour. It died this year also. It was in the car since 2000.
So I would have to say that battery to me is well worth the $140 vs the $70 battery from the auto parts store that will never live to satisfy it's 5 year warranty. Try about three years on that one.
Maybe you guys just got a bad batch OR these things, seemingly like every other part, is being out sourced to fourth world countries.
I know a lot of the Bendix brand is now being made in Argentina and somewhere around 50% of the parts are defective right out of the box.
I look at it this way. We have something like 50,000 traffic fatalities annually in this country. Who's gonna miss a few corporate scumbags who's prime reason to exist is to rape us all and leave us standing naked by the roadside.
I say first tar and feather them, then lynch them up. It sounds like most of you have no idea just how deep this problem has become in our society. At some point there has to be some accountability somewhere. This is just my choice at where to start.
Sorry. I didn't mean to preach but venting becomes necessary at some point. Guillotine works for me too.
