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Lennox, SD | What is everyone using for a battery in their Vision when it is time to replace it. My Battery let me down yesterday and I had to trailer the bike home, it must be time for a battery.
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| I'm 110% sold on odessey batteries. Had one in my Vmax for 7 years. Never a problem and no trickle charger. |
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Iron Butt
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| I use interstate, have for years in the cars and bikes. They've never left me stranded. |
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Brighton, TN | Id probably go with whatever is in there now. Doesnt leak acid and has lasted for 4 1/2 years. FYI, you can bump start that big beast and it doesnt take much. |
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Rockford, IL | Years ago it kinda used to matter what battery you went with. There was some differences between them all. But I think that nowadays batteries are all pretty much the same as far as quality and such. This is unless you go with some fancy battery that you pay three times more for but only get about 1/3 more "performance" out of it.....if that.
Also....I'm a bit surprised that an 09 battery took a dump. There are a lot of 08 owners here and for the most part we are running the original battery. I'd recommend looking at some other possibilities rather jump right to a "its gotta be a bad battery" type solution. Tightening up a loose battery cable is much less painfull than replacing a battery. |
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Tourer
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| I am kinda surprised also that your 08 battery went bad.....I have had bikes with the same battery for 6-8 years with no issues...My 1999 Valkyrie battery was never on a charger during the winter and lasted for 8 years....??? Are you sure it is the battery and not something else like stated above???
Edited by opas ride 2012-04-20 10:05 AM
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New Bohemia, VA | I'd run a check on the battery. I recommend keeping a good fresh battery, no older than 4 years. But that's no official recommendation, just what I feel comfortable with. A battery on a bike is part of the power drive, that is, don't run a bike without a battery, ever. So, if I feel the battery is starting to fail, I'll replace it. I'm on battery number two, and the original one was only dead once when I left the trunk light on after I first got it. When the fuel pump failed, I thought it may have been an electrical issue, and being nearly 3 years old at the time I replaced the battery. Most likely K, you had an unusual battery drain, maybe a loose cable, left on the trunk light, played the radio to long. I'd take the time to remove and clean the battery terminals, wipe it down good, charge it, put dielectrical grease on the post, install and tighten the cables down and then see how it does.
Edited by varyder 2012-04-20 11:51 AM
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| Maybe if you used a battery tender in the winter you battery would still be good.
Still have my 08 orignal battery and going strong. |
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| I have seen my battery dip to 10 volts as it starts after sitting a week or so. It is the original and is 4 years plus old. I see a problem coming so it will be replaced very soon ,just for peace of mind . |
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Lennox, SD | Well as far as batteries go if they let me down they are gone.
I keep the bike on a battery tender when ever it is parked.
So today we start with a new gel battery with a 2 year warranty.
Problem solved. . . . . . stand me once shame on me . . . . . strand me twice shame on me! |
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Iron Butt
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Rockford, IL | Kioti - 2012-04-20 8:17 PM Well as far as batteries go if they let me down they are gone. I keep the bike on a battery tender when ever it is parked. So today we start with a new gel battery with a 2 year warranty. Problem solved. . . . . . stand me once shame on me . . . . . strand me twice shame on me! Unless you check over some of the other items then it might not truly be "problem solved"
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Westchester Co., NY | I find using a battery tender greatly increases the life of a battery. |
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Edmonton Alberta, Canada | Purchased my Vision May 08, first night found the truck light switch and turned it off, never seen a battery tender, never seen a battery charger. Just fire up in the spring and run it ofr 10 - 15 mins the first time. original battery. The max I have ever listened to the radio while bike is off is 10 -15 mins. Even this spring the battery was as low as the the first winter it was parked, rolled over a little slow but still fired. I have in the past changed batteries in vehicles only to find out new battery not as good as original. I comes down to doing what make you feel better. Living up north here, we park our bikes in late october thru end of april. We have pretty long days and rarly ride in the dark as we get sunshine till nearly 11 pm from june, so have never added any extra lights. |
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Hartland, , WI | Keeping a close eye on my original battery too. On a battery tender since I bought the bike and it is doing great but you know how batteries go...no warning...plates move or something else and you go to start it and there is nothing. I wish a battery would slowly give you the warning that there isn't much left go fetch a new one...but sometimes they just go.
Edited by Vinner1 2012-04-22 12:32 PM
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Jasper, MO | Vinner1 - 2012-04-22 12:31 PM
Keeping a close eye on my original battery too. On a battery tender since I bought the bike and it is doing great but you know how batteries go...no warning...plates move or something else and you go to start it and there is nothing. I wish a battery would slowly give you the warning that there isn't much left go fetch a new one...but sometimes they just go.
That's certainly true. My original battery on my '08 Vision died suddenly when it was just 6 months old. The replacement is still going strong. Yesterday, while on a ride with friends, one of the bikes refused to start after a stop (Honda, not that it matters). His battery was a Walmart Everstart battery that was new last year. It just suddenly died. We rode to the next town to Walmart and got him a new battery and took it back, put it in, and continued the ride. Sometimes, they just let go.
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