re: Decision on new truck battery?

I follow the advice of my auto service shop owner and replace auto/truck batteries every 3 years - regardless - as supposedly the average life of an auto battery in the Deep South is about 3 1/2 years. I’ve never been inconvenienced anywhere with a dead battery since I started doing that a decade or so ago.

At $120 a battery, 3 years, $40 a year - maybe not even the cost of 1 tank of gasoline - why take the chance of being inconvenienced b/c you know that damn battery is going to die at the most inconvenient time or location.


Owner of my shop wrote this article, read the whole article, but the last sentence provides his suggestion/recommendation. Why Batteries Die