Joy

[gsh]

Joy is getting up in the morning, checking my pay stub to see what I'll actually be getting now that my yearly it isn't supposed to be a cost of living no matter what everyone calls it pay increase has kicked in to find *drumroll* I'm taking home ten bucks less a pay period than I was last year.

Joy is finding out the car won't start.

Joy is being able to get your wife on the cell phone to bring the jeep home so I can jump the saturn.

Joy is finding the battery on the saturn won't hold a charge, no matter that its a 2003.

Joy is having an Admiral give a walk through sometime in the day.

Comments

[gsh]

I don't really belive that I deep cycle my car batteries, starting my car twice a day then driving 18 miles to work SHOULD NOT be deep cycling them. My car starts fine, so I'm not cranking and cranking it to start it.

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I should have been more clear. If the battery ever gets so discharged that it really needed a jump, that was probably enough of a deep cycle to damage it somewhat. (A full discharge would be worse, of course.) Different batteries will take that treatment better or worse, and it sounds like yours is taking it worse.

5 years would be nice. Now that I think about it, some batteries have warranties. If they die early you can get a pro-rated refund. I did that once and they didn't even ask questions about how it had got dead.