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Originally Posted by Saker
If your battery is on his fifth year I would consider looking into a replacement battery. Have you done a load test on it yet to see what kind of actual condition it’s in?
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I have not done a load test, but I did use my multimeter 12V battery setting to test it. Without NOCO the battery is around 12.59V after driven. With NOCO it charges it until it reaches 12.9 - 13V. When I have the multimeter on while starting the car, the voltage does not drop below 10V as I learned from ChrisFixIT youtube that is one indication of the battery going bad. But because my multimeter is not fancy FLUKE brand it does not catch changing voltage in realtime that fast enough to say for sure.
Right now I am in Belgium and there are no US spec battery that fits. Batteries are pretty hard to get it shipped as there are many restrictions for shipping overseas. If I can squeze out another 3 years that would be awesome. I heard some people had their oem lasting more than 8 years(but I am sure those are rare).
I do carry Jumpstarter battery unit in the truck, in case when the battery does die, I have a way to jumpstart and keep it going until getting new battery. So hoping this NOCO 5 thing will help the battery to last little longer.