Dead Battery / Bad Starter

[007Cruiser]

I tried to check the date on my battery today. I see nothing on the top with a date. Should I be looking somewhere else?

[HKS]

I tried to check the date on my battery today. I see nothing on the top with a date. Should I be looking somewhere else?

Any strange markings.
It might be a date code the dealer can decipher.

[Lakebum]

There are dozens of car battery brands available to consumers in the U.S., and Motorcraft is the brand installed in Ford vehicles when they are manufactured. Most battery buyers are unaware of the fact that nearly all auto batteries in the U.S. are made by just three manufacturers, Delphi, Exide, and Johnson Controls Industries, then labeled privately for other companies. Johnson Controls makes Motorcraft batteries, and they use a date code on their batteries that indicates when it was manufactured.

Step 1
Locate the sticker or stamp on the battery that has a string of letters and numbers arranged in a code. On a Motorcraft battery, this is located on the side of the battery case.

Step 2
Identify the first character of the code. The first character will be a letter, and will be one of the letters "A" through "L." The letter "A" corresponds to the first month of the year, January, the letter "B" corresponds to the second month of the year, February, and so on. Thus a December month of manufacture would be indicated by the letter "L."

Step 3
Look now to the second character in the code. It will be a number (0-9) that indicates the year the battery was made. The number corresponds to the last digit of the year. For example, a "9" would correspond to the year 2009, while a "6" would indicate the year 2006.

Ignore the remaining characters in the code, as they are not important in regards to checking the date of the battery. Put the two pieces of information together from Steps 2 and 3 to get the date of manufacture for the battery. For example, "C8" is the code for March of 2008.



Found this online thanks to the "Google machine"

[FUN X 3]

Just a reminder for everyone. It's not just any old battery that should go into these cars. Since the battery is located in the trunk, it must be a vented battery. There is a port on the proper battery to hook up the built-in vent hose to.

[007Cruiser]

There are dozens of car battery brands available to consumers in the U.S., and Motorcraft is the brand installed in Ford vehicles when they are manufactured. Most battery buyers are unaware of the fact that nearly all auto batteries in the U.S. are made by just three manufacturers, Delphi, Exide, and Johnson Controls Industries, then labeled privately for other companies. Johnson Controls makes Motorcraft batteries, and they use a date code on their batteries that indicates when it was manufactured.

Step 1
Locate the sticker or stamp on the battery that has a string of letters and numbers arranged in a code. On a Motorcraft battery, this is located on the side of the battery case.

Step 2
Identify the first character of the code. The first character will be a letter, and will be one of the letters "A" through "L." The letter "A" corresponds to the first month of the year, January, the letter "B" corresponds to the second month of the year, February, and so on. Thus a December month of manufacture would be indicated by the letter "L."

Step 3
Look now to the second character in the code. It will be a number (0-9) that indicates the year the battery was made. The number corresponds to the last digit of the year. For example, a "9" would correspond to the year 2009, while a "6" would indicate the year 2006.

Ignore the remaining characters in the code, as they are not important in regards to checking the date of the battery. Put the two pieces of information together from Steps 2 and 3 to get the date of manufacture for the battery. For example, "C8" is the code for March of 2008.



Found this online thanks to the "Google machine"

Thanks for passing that along. I stick with Motorcraft for the correctness at shows.