Posted by JD Seller on February 29, 2016 at 18:31:01 from (208.126.198.123):
I got a call this evening from my Grand Daughter. Her car battery was dead and her Dad was busy doing evening chores. She asked me If I could come and see what as wrong. I took a battery along and when I got there the battery as totally dead/open. Zero voltage. Installed the new battery and all was well.
Now the puzzling part. This car is a 2010 Impala. My wife bought this car when it was six months old. It was a GM program car. She drove it for three years. Right about then the battery failed just like the one did tonight. No warning just bang, zero voltage. That battery as the original and was 40 months old. So I just thought bad battery and replaced it with a Delco battery. I did check the charging system and it was fine.
Shortly after that this Grand Daughter started her Senior year of high school. She also was taking college classes in the evenings. She needed a better car than her old beater/starter car. So we sold her the 2010 Impala. We replaced it with a 2013 Impala.
When she had owned the car a little over 13 months the battery failed again. It was under warranty but it happened on a Sunday night so I got an Interstate battery off of a good friend that runs a local garage. The next day we tested the charging system and it checked fine. I was still thinking we might have a alternator/regulator issue. So I bought a NEW Delco/OEM alternator. The one off of the car I kept as a spare as it fits several other vehicles we own.
Eleven months after that the battery failed again. Replaced it with another Interstate but paid some boot and bought the best he had. I also took the car over to Monticello to two mechanics, that are GM certified and have many years of experience, to be totally checked out. They could not find anything wrong with the car. They even took the starter off to see if it had internal issues, nothing.
So tonight the battery failed again. This one lasted just over 14 months. Same problem open circuit, zero voltage. This car only has 60K miles on it now. It looks and runs like new. This is the fourth battery that has failed. The original lasted 40 months but the others are lasting just about a year average. The first two were Delco brand and the next two were Interstate. They all failed the same way too. Open circuit. Like as in a broken plate/bar inside the battery. I am going to take this one apart tomorrow.
Any ideas????? The open circuit is the odd part to me. The location is just on the right front corner of the car. I even checked the struts thinking road vibration was causing an issue.
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