Should I use a battery tender on my daily driver?
I drive a 2000 ford f350 with a powerstroke and i drive it daily to school ect and whenever i'm not driving it i plug the battery tender in overnight. Will this prolong the batteries or is it unnecessary
If you drive for at least a half hour a day, a tender is unncesessary.
It may actually shorten the life. Battery tenders are not very sophisticated and tend to slightly overcharge the battery Cars also tend to overcharge the battery, especially in hot climates, and extending the hours of overcharge to nearly 24 hours per day is not a good thing. The positive plates grow as a result of corrosion on the grain boundaries and the battery eventually becomes intermittent. When I lived in Phoenix about half my batteries died that way.
It is un-needed. Just like cold air intakes.
Completely un-necessary on a vehicle used every day.
If it's a daily driver, it's unnecessary.
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