Sorry, my poor attempt at humour has failed.
What do you need a voltmeter for?
I have been riding two wheelers for more than three decades and have never needed one.
Four decades on two wheels has taught me nothing, all advice given is guaranteed to be wrong
The more aftermarket stuff you fit the higher the chances of having a problem later on.How long are you planning on keeping your PCX?
The battery should last a good few years, maybe ten.
Will you still be riding it in ten years or will you have moved on to something else?
Four decades on two wheels has taught me nothing, all advice given is guaranteed to be wrong
Or too lazy. We replace our vehicle batteries by five years, even if they are working fine. We may be giving up a few useful years, but since we started this maintenance schedule we've avoided the hassles of having to deal with dead batteries. We can shop around for a good price and do the installation at a convenient time. If it costs us any extra, it is well worth it for peace of mind.
2011 Honda PCX, 2007 Suzuki Burgman 400
2 Honda Civics, 5 bicycles and 1 more on order
I agree GN2, that part is hard to swallow. They get recycled, so that makes me feel a little better about it. I don't think a vehicle battery ever lasts more than 7 years, so hopefully we aren't throwing them away very long before they would have failed.
2011 Honda PCX, 2007 Suzuki Burgman 400
2 Honda Civics, 5 bicycles and 1 more on order
I had the original stock battery in my honda CRV for over 10 years! Sold the car with the same battery too.... I guess I've been really lucky seeing that I've never had starting issues due to a bad battery... One time I needed to clean the terminals, but the battery was still fine.
I had a Toyota Carina E which I bought from my dad, it was in our family for roughly twelve years and all on the original battery.
The car I have now is ten years old and I think it has the original battery.
If you routinely swap out a battery at 7 years, you'll never know how long it would have lasted.
Four decades on two wheels has taught me nothing, all advice given is guaranteed to be wrong
and I always carry a set of jumper cables with me... and my dad had a manual car that had a dead battery for over a month... he just parked it on hills until one day he stalled it at an intersection and got stuck =]
gn2 wrote:Nor intelligent enough to use jump leads....
What if I don't have any on me? There's no way I'd carry them with me in the scooter, they take up too much space and add weight. You'd be surprised how few people actually carry jumpers nowadays... I have a set in both my trucks, but would never bother with that on a scooter.
I have terrible luck with batteries. I went through a battery a year on my CR-V until I replaced it with a Duralast premium. A few cars before that, I had a 1995 Infiniti G20. It was a good car, with not a single issue other than a shitty alternator. Even after having it replaced, it wouldn't charge the battery properly and would eventually kill them. I replaced the battery 3 or 4 times, then just left the bad battery in and parked on a hill. Thank god that thing was stickshift, or I would have been getting several jumps a day.