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pay attention to the cold cranking amps if you do get a new battery.
my stock battery had 600 cca and it was a slug in the way of starting.
i replaced that with an everstart maxx battery that has 875 cca and now it really zings the starter even when it's 20º outside.
My dads truck has almost 400xxx and he's on like his 4th alternator. I'll stop by oreilly's in the morning and have the battery checked. But how come the volt meter on the dash didn't go up till I drove for awhile?
it doesnt have enough power stored...on my g/f's maxima the alt. is gone and i have an everstart maxx battery in it from 3 months ago, so i can still get it started (not anymore) but i could tach it up to 5500 rpms the and batt. light and brake light shut off....so more rpms' its tryin to push more power, and somehow it got power agin, nd immidiatly died afterwards....but i know the alt is shot.
my sisters 96 nissan pickup had the alternator go out at 75k and 150k, then she traded it for the ram just before it hit 220k so it was almost time for another alternator.
all the vehicles at my house have an everstart maxx because you can't beat the price, warranty or quality on them.
Yeah,I had my old battery checked at Advance. The guy said, "It's the battery" and I told him I was going down the street to Wal-Mart.He said he couldn't tell me that W-M was cheaper,then wispered, "They are about $15 cheaper" lol.
my sisters 96 nissan pickup had the alternator go out at 75k and 150k, then she traded it for the ram just before it hit 220k so it was almost time for another alternator.
lol i had a 93 nissan 4x4 5 speed, i redid the suspension, frame, timing chain and componants, u joints and front cv shafts, throw out bearing, fuel pump cuz sendin unit wsa leakin, got 31x10.5x15 mud kings on it, and a bunch more stuff. the truck only had 78K when i sold it. (62K when i bought it i was the second owner, had every recipt for everything, even oil changes, and i had the paper that goes in the window when at the dealership from 93 that shows all the truck stats.) i beat the ever living **** out of that truck, and it would not die. put it into a pond, took in water where it shut down, but 10 minutes later she fired back up with no problems....then i got my Ram, and im re-doing everything on that lol.
i have to say i wish i would have kept my nissan just for 4x4ing, cuz that thing could rip throug alot of stuff, and it was proprly guarged with a bunch of skid plates underneath so if i bottomed out it was no big deal