atv battery

[meatman]

can a atv battery go bad even with a batttery tender hooked to it??

[Fisherman 1]

Yes,  there's a chance that a battery can develope an internal short.  Sometimes a piece of the battery plates can break off and become the short circuit and kill a cell. 

[CMMahy]

Some times the caps can come loose on the wet-cell batteries and let the water evaporate, that will 'kill' them as well. Usually they can be topped up with distilled water and re-charged if that happens.

[meatman]

its a 2010 arctic cat stock battery.  bought it last october, so ive had it for a year.  i believe its a sealed battery.  seems wierd its bad already.  havent had a chence to takr it to be tested yet.

[Relheok]

Should have bought a Honda

[anderson_dc]

Should have bought a Honda

Thanks for contributing to the thread

[SLAYERFISH]

Thanks for contributing to the thread

He's from Vormont!

[Fishmon]

I had same problem with Arctic Cat battery (2010).  Dealer replaced it and new one was fine.  Hope it stays that way.  May be they had a bad batch of batteries.  (Triple B!)

[low277]

None of the ATV manufactures make their own batteries that I know of, I can say this with absolute certainty about one manufacturer because I work there.

That being said, it is possible to get some bad ones from a supplier, or possibly it sat in a warehouse either at the distributor or the manufacturer for an extended time before it was installed.

At the company that I work at, when the ATV's are started and ran before crating the battery on the vehicle is not used. A separate 12 volt power source is used for the starting the machines and testing of the lights, gauges etc. In fact at the factory that I am at the batteries are  shipped dry with the electrolyte added by the dealer who then charges the battery.

I do not know how the other manufactures do theirs.

[Kevin76]

I have a 2008 Artic Cat 650 HI.Stock battery was 180 cca...way under powered..bought a 360 cca gel cell...Never had a problem since

[meatman]

i got a new battery.  one of the cells wsa bad.  got a bigger battery with more cold cranking amps.  Batterymart.  Big crank etx16 battery. http://www.batterymart.com/p-Big-Crank-ETX16-Battery.html#pr-header-ETX__16

[bob123]

atv batteries go bad quite often, our quads need a new one almost every year