Starting Trouble

[RamAirGAGT]

I have heard this discussion before, and my car did it as well. Sometimes, well, often, my car would need to crank for a long time to get it to start. When it did, it would sometimes shake a lot when it finally fired. Well, I went out of town for Spring Break, and my battery died. I got a jump and made it to the nearest town. I decided to buy a battery with more CCA (Cold Cranking Amps). The stocker had 600, and the new one has 675.... WHAT A DIFFERENCE!! Every start now is effortless! Not sure if this has been answered, but there ya go :) The stock batteries just suck.

[Fyrious]

ya i just wanted to say, i agree... i had starting problems to before and the dealer ship wanted to install a whole new ignition and passcode crap which would have cost about 500bucks, but i was like the hell with that... so then i got my battery tested they said it was crap so went and bought a lot better battery and installed some MSD wires and BAM! she runs perfect, and it only cost me about 250-300bucks... bout half the price of gettin a whole new ignition harness and key passcode crap...

[rixGAphx]

Stock battery or aftermarket, high CCA or 'normal':

EVERY lead acid battery will start to lose efficiency/CCA-rating the moment it's put into service.
It can't be perpetually re-charged.
AND, if it EVER goes completely 'dead', it loses about 10% efficiency with that one incident. You can recharge it, but it will only hold 90% of the charge it did before the deadening.
Leave the lights on 5 times, and you've eaten 50% of the life of a battery (maybe more).

After 2 or 3 years, your new battery will be 'tired' and less effective than a new 600CCA battery.

Delco batteries thru the dealer are excessively expensive, but they are a very good quality product.
Yeah, GA's might have been sold with the smallest possible battery and that sucks, but it's not a quality problem on Delco's part, it's the fault of the bean-counters who told the factory to install a $38 battery instead of a $45 battery.

Glad yer back to running fine.
-Rick

[RamAirGAGT]

I know Delco makes good batteries, and I try to buy Delco products whenever possible. My starting problems didn't begin with time. The car kind of always did that. And from what I hear, a lot of GAs have done the same. I would have bought a Delco if one was available with more CCAs, but I was on my way from from East Texas, and there were only little hillbilly towns :) I finally found a First Auto and bought one of their house brands. So far, I am impressed by it. I just always thought my GA had a weak starter or something like that.... I never suspected the CCAs were too low.