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Joined: 31/12/2016
Location: AustraliaPosts: 1214
| Posted: 09:31am 26 Sep 2025 |
Time add a bit more user history, My Old Man has been buying and using Century batteries for longer than I can remember, When I was a lot younger we used to buy most of our century batters from the front gate at the factory Cobalt St, Carole Park, we lived not far from there back then so not a big deal to drop in any time.
Mostly used to buy Blemished batteries, often nothing wrong with them, just a scratch or marks and a damaged sticker, we could get a good working battery at a reduced price.
For those that don't know what blemished looks like Have look,
One blemished battery was quite a bit of fun to use, it didn't pass QC because it had 2 large terminal post's instead of the normal POS and NEG post sizes, it was a good starting battery but when its needed in a different vehicle or tractor for starting it was a PITA as post was too big to fit NEG terminal....some swearing followed then opened the brass terminal clamp to fit the post, even more fun watching someone else borrow it.
When I was working in that area we had a fellow come in to get some work done, he was a Century employee that I used to do some welding work for, always well dressed chap and good to talk to, he worked for century for some time, good place to work no complaints.
The last Blemished Century battery I bought was about $40 but that was a long time ago, we did at one stage have a battery REP come (not sure which company he was from) into the Boat workshop with a new Marine Grade battery to show us the internal baffle design so there was less sloshing when used in small boats.
Moved from that area in 2002 and went an hour west, kept buying Century Batteries from local shops but no longer got the blemished batteries and so had to pay full retail, Had all ready started trying different brand batteries, bought our last century battery in 2018, think that went in the car.
Getting to the point, these 2 batteries are dated 2016 and 2017 and they are still working now.........
I will explain how and why because some people refuse to come clean with the usage history, these batteries have been used to start the big generator (engine only) and a 671 GM Diesel engine, and only do 3 to 4 starts PER YEAR and maintained with regular charging the rest of the time, they are very tired now and may have a few more starts still in them but not many, This is not good use of expensive batteries compared to those that are used most days several times a day.
If they were used for everyday normal use they would not last that many years.