Car battery insulation sleeve? The debate.

Tom S. said:
The manufacturer knows where every car is going before they are built. The days of building cars and just shipping wherever disappeared long ago. That isn't to say that dealers don't swap cars, because they do, but generally that's within a couple hundred miles or less.
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I'm in the car transport business. Manufacturers build cars and store them. After a certain amount is ready they ship the cars to holding facilities in different parts of the country. One facility may cover many bordering states
They then get an order for X amount from a dealer in whatever state. But as it's built they don't know where it's going. Also dealers swap cars all over the country, so much so that we do biweekly runs from PA/NJ to WA state.

I'm not saying they're completely clueless but the storage facility in Newark NJ may cover DC to Maine.

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Rule3 said:
It's geography. We are closer to the equator.

But Tn is closer to the Sun at 337 ft elevation We are at 4 ft.;)

It does not snow here very often:)

Yearly average temps here iare much higher than Memphis

But this is all non sequitur
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Bet you get a pretty decent ocean breeze too. Our breeze comes from Texas and Oklahoma and unlike the ocean the Mississippi River doesn't cool it.
 
My opinion, and mine only, is that a mfg will add a part that cost 5 bucks on everything they can, so they can charge an additional 100.00 bucks for the 5 dollar part.
 
Rule3 said:
It's geography. We are closer to the equator.

But Tn is closer to the Sun at 337 ft elevation We are at 4 ft.;)

It does not snow here very often:)

Yearly average temps here iare much higher than Memphis

But this is all non sequitur
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I thought you were moving up to the redneck Riviera? :D:D
 
sheepdawg said:
Bet you get a pretty decent ocean breeze too. Our breeze comes from Texas and Oklahoma and unlike the ocean the Mississippi River doesn't cool it.
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The temp between the two locations is not the subject.

But if you want to believe than so be it.

Right now it is 92 and 54% humidity here

Memphis is 83 and 35% humidity.

So lets just leave it OK.
 
It's for keeping engine from heat-soaking battery.

On cars without sleeves, you'll see a lot of poly 'fences',
to isolate the battery, somewhat, from engine compartment heat.

Heat kills lead acid batteries faster than sub-zero temps.
 
Whether the sleeve works or not isn't the point: If it was on the car when it came in, it should be on the car when it leaves, unless you specifically told the shop to make any improvements or remove any parts they felt like w/o checking with you first.


Ole Joe Clark said:
My opinion, and mine only, is that a mfg will add a part that cost 5 bucks on everything they can, so they can charge an additional 100.00 bucks for the 5 dollar part.
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I read an article from an industry insider, at one point talking about what they choose to build cars with, and he said a manufacturer would sell their grandmother to avoid adding a five cent part.
 
If you have a trunk, have a qualified individual mount battery there. I've had for years a vented plastic battery case I got from an old car repairman.
Battery in rear is sealed by trunk from hot cold and elements better than under hood. All my batteries seemed to go 5-6 years shielded from the underhand exposure

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All I can add is my personal experience for what it's worth.
My wife had a '95 Saturn that needed a new battery about every 12 months. The battery was enclosed in a plastic box. After going through several batteries, on a hunch I did not replace the plastic box when installing a new battery. The battery lasted at least three years this way. From then on, no box = much longer battery life.
 
Absolutely fascinating thread! Batteries are much like guns it seems. Keep the box? Throw away the box?
or maybe....just maybe........JACK IN THE BOX!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bwahahaha...............................
 
Actuallly....

Hillbilly77 said:
Cold weather in South Carolina?! :confused: :eek:

What'd it do, drop below 60°? :D :D



On a serious note, what kind of cold do you experience? It seems like a heater under the hood wouldn't be necessary.

Here in NY, a good battery will start a car at -20°F without much trouble.
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It's gotten down the 13 deg F here at night. The thing is that kind of weather doesn't go on long and maybe a couple of time/syear. With the way the climate is changing though, we don't know what to expect. We had a few cold days this year.

To me getting a quality battery is the key. Trouble is, the big box stores sell batteries that are perfectly timed to fail. Even specialized shops sell batteries that I don't like.

I can get a Diehard around here, but AC/Delco or Exide is hard to find and usually when you need a car battery, you can't spend a lot of time looking for one. And I don't know where the Diehards are going to be after Sears pulls out.

Way back when (I say that a lot) you could nurse a battery along for a while with a charger but since you knew it was failing, you could arrange to get it replaced. Usually it was a cold day that would kill them. Today's batteries are only timed go so far then they die and that's it,

Anyway, I hate the sound of nuh.. nuh.. nuh.... nuh...................click click click click.

Everybody has a different situation in their locale. If I lived in Tuscon or Fargo I'd approach it differently.
 
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12 months?.....gads!

Jack Flash said:
All I can add is my personal experience for what it's worth.
My wife had a '95 Saturn that needed a new battery about every 12 months. The battery was enclosed in a plastic box. After going through several batteries, on a hunch I did not replace the plastic box when installing a new battery. The battery lasted at least three years this way. From then on, no box = much longer battery life.
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Stop using 12 volt lantern batteries in your car.:D:D:D
 
rwsmith said:
Stop using 12 volt lantern batteries in your car.:D:D:D
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Ha ha. They were top of the line batteries for top of the line prices. That little Saturn just cooked them. The engine compartment got hotter than the Devil's house. At least with that damned plastic cover removed, they lasted 3 years instead of only one.
 
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