[W126 Coupe] New Topic: battery

[Axel Wulff]

I went to an MBCA event last year to hear tech guru George Murphy talk about
our cars and maintenance issues.

IIRC, he said that the MB batteries are crap and to buy either Optima or
Interstate (which makes sense because Interstate owns Optima...).

Cheers,
Axel

-----Original Message-----
From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com [mailto:mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com]
On Behalf Of Dan Landiss
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 7:49 PM
To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists
Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] New Topic: battery

Mister McGoo wrote:
>
> At -3C ambient the voltage was 12.4V.  I expected more but my new 
> 850CCA battery read the same.
>

Unfortunately the no-load voltage is not a good indicator of a battery's 
condition. The shops use a tester that draws several amps.

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