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10-27-2011, 06:30 PM

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May be an issue? Mine has started quickly in -10 F w/o a block heater while the grid heaters were on( did not pay any attention to the 'wait to start' ). Now at -30 F and 15W-40 in the crank case I think I would have waited.

That 1125 CCA is just a spec Chrysler published based on a customer average usage plus some leeway to prevent acruing TGW's.
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Douglas

Do you not see the plus side to having as much battery power available as possible? With your battery setup I would be constantly second guessing it and wondering if it will not start one day. It makes sense to pack as much battery in there as space/money allow.

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10-27-2011, 06:34 PM

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how heavy is an Optima battery?

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10-28-2011, 05:34 AM

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I do see the plus side. Just takiing issue with the spec. given my truck's starting performance I am not at all concerned about its ability to start in low temp. Not even a little bit.
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10-28-2011, 09:12 AM

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Same here, ... I didn't know what my starter sounded like until the first time I had an FSS problem (wire had gone dead). I should've gutted the FSS back then in '06, but didn't know about the shut-off lever at that time.