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Mustang5L5

That is…until I whipped out my Bissell
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So starting to not trust my battery. It's a 10-year old (yes 10) Die Hard Gold that's lived its entire life on a trickle charger other than 600-700 miles of driving.

No power issues, and battery still tests good, but I've been noticing I can hear it fizz a bit during charging and see some water on top. I know this is slightly normal, to a point, but the time the trickle charger takes to get to float voltage has increased dramatically.

You can see slight liquid here on top during charge.


Anyway, I want a motorcraft battery, but looking online I don't see any available for the fox. I then looked for die yards and seems they no longer have a model (from online searching)

Taking a trip to sears tomorrow, but is a motorcraft battery still available? I believe both are made by Johnson Controls.
 

Mustang5L5

That is…until I whipped out my Bissell
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Wrong forum. Move to talk
 
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Have you tried finding one at O'Reilly auto parts, or your local Ford dealer?
 

Shakerhood

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After 11 years of my old Autozone battery I decided on an Odyssey 1200 Series Battery, hard to believe its been in the car for 8 years already but it is a beast of a Battery.
 

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Motorcraft BX58C purchased from my local Ford Dealer last month. $120.00
 
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Shakerhood said:
After 11 years of my old Autozone battery I decided on an Odyssey 1200 Series Battery, hard to believe its been in the car for 8 years already but it is a beast of a Battery.
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Are odyssey battery's the type you can lay on there side and they won't leak etc
 

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Mustang5L5 said:
Taking a trip to sears tomorrow, but is a motorcraft battery still available? I believe both are made by Johnson Controls.
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Die Hard Gold and Motorcraft... Yep, same folks.
 

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Mustang5L5 said:
So starting to not trust my battery. It's a 10-year old (yes 10) Die Hard Gold that's lived its entire life on a trickle charger other than 600-700 miles of driving.

No power issues, and battery still tests good, but I've been noticing I can hear it fizz a bit during charging and see some water on top. I know this is slightly normal, to a point, but the time the trickle charger takes to get to float voltage has increased dramatically.

You can see slight liquid here on top during charge.


Anyway, I want a motorcraft battery, but looking online I don't see any available for the fox. I then looked for die yards and seems they no longer have a model (from online searching)

Taking a trip to sears tomorrow, but is a motorcraft battery still available? I believe both are made by Johnson Controls.
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I run the advance auto gold series, use the $40 off a $100 code and has a 3 year warranty. Never have had a problem with it. I ran a duralast for a while and it survived the fire and but was deformed /ugly. So its now used on the tractor.
 

General karthief

wonder how much it would cost to ship you a pair
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I use duracell D size, guess how many of them suckers you got to tape together to crank a car?
Great for ballast over the rearend.
 
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CarMichael Angelo

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I've had The odyssey in the red car, and mounted in my last drag car. I liked that battery because it was small, and could be hung (with it's dedicated mount) anywhere, in any orientation. I currently have an Optima red top in the Monster.
 

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I buy the Oreilly's crap. Comes with a warranty, but haven't needed it but once when I let the battery go flat and wouldn't recharge. Exchanged, no questions asked.
 

5.0Droptop

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I use 4 3 volt batteries from my garage door opener... I keep the remote in the truck so I have a spare just in case.
 

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i will be running a 16V "V-Battery"
 

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Interstate
 
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Noobz347 said:

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I think the Dilithium crystals are a bit safer for inner city travel...
 

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All Stock93 said:
Motorcraft BX58C purchased from my local Ford Dealer last month. $120.00
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So ford still does sell them? Interesting how this battery doesn't come up when running various searches on ford's own parts website.

Found it after searching. Orielly's wants $160 for a Motorcraft BX58C-850! However, the cross reference for this doesn't come up for a Mustang.
 

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Mustang5L5 said:
So ford still does sell them? Interesting how this battery doesn't come up when running various searches on ford's own parts website.

Found it after searching. Orielly's wants $160 for a Motorcraft BX58C-850! However, the cross reference for this doesn't come up for a Mustang.
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They do sell them.
I got the battery number directly from the owners manual and called the local dealer. They had it the next day
 

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AGM battery from Advance Auto...
 
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karthief said:
I use duracell D size, guess how many of them suckers you got to tape together to crank a car?
Great for ballast over the rearend.
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Your wife wants her batteries back
 
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