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Message: <blockquote data-quote="someotherguy" data-source="post: 20050" data-attributes="member: 6178">08-18-2021 Truck wouldn't start, sounded like low battery. It's got a whole bunch of fairly recent good quality parts in the starting/charging system, so it's kind of a bummer it won't start.  Throw the battery charger on it, says it's fine. Tried the 60A jump start mode, still no dice.Assumed (key word) the 3.5 year old was-new/not rebuilt/(but made in China because everything is) AC Delco starter had gone bad. Order a new Remy starter and pay extra for it to get here on time for next nights off. Go to throw it on the truck and, yeah.. it's the f'ing battery![ATTACH=full]1151[/ATTACH]4.5 year old $220 (now $260) Odyssey "Performance" AGM battery crapped out. Acts OK at a simple measurement but must have a weak/shorted cell or whatever.[ATTACH=full]1152[/ATTACH]OK, so out with that and in with the new Champion Premium from Pep Boys,which btw, is not looking all that great these days. They've turned into a "service only" center, no more parts. Great service - it only took the dude 15 minutes to NOT find my online order, until another dude walked up and found it within about 15 seconds.  Anyway, truck starts great now. New battery, new starter. Spare good starter on the shelf which is never a bad thing. Lesson learned? I need more tools - a battery load tester![ATTACH=full]1153[/ATTACH]10-10-2021 Marking the occasion of getting the truck back from the transmission shop, 144K miles 4L65E crapped out and got rebuilt by my buddy Joe at Premier.[ATTACH=full]1154[/ATTACH]11-05-2021 Wrapping up 2021 from what I can tell.. had the Ravelco guys come out and do installs of their anti-theft system on both our trucks.  This is in addition to several other means of anti-theft we have, since both trucks have had theft attempts while we've owned them.[ATTACH=full]1155[/ATTACH]Richard</blockquote>