New Battery Source

[etemplet]

I've been buying batteries for these skis for 5 years. I buy 3 or more batteries a year. I found a new source for me. Batteries Plus. For about the same price as batteries at Auto Zone or O'Reilly's. I can get a 2 year warranty from Batteries Plus. Auto Zone has crap batteries and a crap warranty to boot. (Couple of months) I just bought a battery for my motorcycle with a 2 year warranty which is hella good for me. I asked about the Jet Ski batteries and thought I'd share. I'm gonna give them a try. Batteries last year ETX16L AGM were $109 from the companies I mentioned.

I never tried the 20.

 

[burtshaver2021]

I have an interstate battery that will be going on 8 years this season, I needed another battery last fall so I bought another interstate

 

[JJinSC]

I have had excellent life with interstate batteries in my boat. But, I have been buying my seadoo batteries from batteries plus for a long while now. I got 4-5 year out of the last one

 

[Boyd12]

I have been using Chrome Batteries for about 15 years. They cost around $55 including fast shipping. They last 4-5 years.

 

[etemplet]

Sounds like you guys have good luck with batteries. I have to admit I'm not a battery maintenance person but I do disconnect them when not riding and I don't ride my skis very often. I dislike batteries that have the floating nut to insert the terminal hold down bolt. They fall out and you have to find them and I have to finagle the nut into position so I can insert the bolt with the cable attached. I bought some cheap batteries. I pay around $110 for a battery for the skis. I'm sure it will be more this year.

I'm curious to hear how people have batteries that last 5 years? Do you ride a lot? Keep the battery on a charger?

 

[burtshaver2021]

I don’t do a lot, the old interstate had ran the winter in one of my snowmobiles, usually just goes in the shop and gets charged once or twice in the off season. I did the math and it’s actually going on it’s 9th season not it’s 8th

 

[etemplet]

I got one for ya. I bought a brand new battery from Auto Zone and my cousin through his company gets a small discount so I got the battery for 88 bucks. Now it gets interesting. I did my first total rebuild, my wife's ski. We though everything engine and all. I put the new battery in there and the engine wouldn't turn over. I pulled the spark plugs and it would turn over. I did compression checks and they were a tad high at 170psi. I thought... maybe the engine needs to wear in a bit. I checked the starter, wires. I took a 1000 cold cranking amp battery and connected jumping cables to the battery and still.... I had to get the engine over the hump for it to turn over and never did get it to start. What a pain. I ended up putting an old battery in the ski and the sumbish spun over with no problems at all. So I had a brand new charged up battery that was bad and best of all I couldn't get my money back without going through my cousin so I ate the 90 bucks and bought another battery. Problem solved. I guess one could say that batteries and me just don't get along.

 

[Boyd12]

I usually ride about once per week. I bring them inside in the off season where it is heated and charge them periodically.

 

[JJinSC]

I usually ride about once per week. I bring them inside in the off season where it is heated and charge them periodically.

Yep, that ^^. Ride at least once a week sometimes more. I live on the river and the SeaDoo stays on the Jet-slide in the summer. I pull it once during the summer and top the charge off with trickle. In winter, I pull it out of the ski and put it in shop on a tinder.

 

[DaddyLoafin]

I go through a battery a year it seems like as well but from Advanced. 2 of them the positive terminals cracked after a few months of use. I was going to try a local place that's like battery's plus when this one inevitably goes sometime this year..

 

[etemplet]

I go through a battery a year it seems like as well but from Advanced. 2 of them the positive terminals cracked after a few months of use. I was going to try a local place that's like battery's plus when this one inevitably goes sometime this year..

I've tried a lot of different batteries. I swap them around also because I'm riding different skis and testing. I don't put them on a charger very often either.

 

[DaddyLoafin]

I've tried a lot of different batteries. I swap them around also because I'm riding different skis and testing. I don't put them on a charger very often either.

This is the first year I pulled it out and put it inside on a charger for the off season. I bought a 2022 gp1800 svho in October and the dealer put in a new Honda Battery and so far, I like it but I've only used that ski once so far. It did come with much bigger nuts that go into the terminals which makes it a lot easier to get the bolt to engage with it when you have the wire ends on the bolt.

 

[etemplet]

The most bad azz battery I've used is the ones from the Harley Shop. I don't know who is making them for HD but they last 5 years and I treat them ugly. Bike sits for months at a time and not on a charger. That would probably be a cool batter to convert to a single system on the boat (1996 Speedster) but I'm leaving both batteries in there. Too much BS to swap over. Somebody put a a Maintainer or charger in the boat unless it came with one.

 

[DaddyLoafin]

The most bad azz battery I've used is the ones from the Harley Shop. I don't know who is making them for HD but they last 5 years and I treat them ugly. Bike sits for months at a time and not on a charger. That would probably be a cool batter to convert to a single system on the boat (1996 Speedster) but I'm leaving both batteries in there. Too much BS to swap over. Somebody put a a Maintainer or charger in the boat unless it came with one.

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yeah i wonder who makes the batterys for honda.