No maintenance or Low maintenance Battery?

**Dann Pill** · July 20th, 2008 09:00 PM

ano ba mas ok yun low or no maintenance battery?

**[archie]** · July 20th, 2008 09:48 PM

no brainer... maintenance free batt...

**meledson** · July 20th, 2008 09:52 PM

Ok lang sa akin ang mantenance needed na batteries. kasi at least once or twice a month, I check my fluids. kasama na dito ang battery. I do this when I wash the car.

maintenance needed kasi ang stock na battery ng Avanza. GS ang brand

**rion** · July 20th, 2008 10:36 PM

how about the performance, parehas lang ba? as long as maintained?

**meledson** · July 20th, 2008 11:14 PM

For me, for local use, this GS brand is not a good brand, dahil mga mga nagpalit na from the stock GS to Motolite.

Assuming na maintenance needed na motolite at maintenance free na motolite. Same lang naman ang performance. Baka nga after a year or 2 baka ang well maintained na maintenance needed na battery will perform better.

**washburn** · July 20th, 2008 11:21 PM

Maintenance free for me

**SusieQ** · July 21st, 2008 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by meledson

Ok lang sa akin ang mantenance needed na batteries. kasi at least once or twice a month, I check my fluids. kasama na dito ang battery. I do this when I wash the car.

maintenance needed kasi ang stock na battery ng Avanza. GS ang brand

IMHO, Maintenance-free kasi I can forget it for a year or two... but just make sure you get a good quality battery - yung GS parang dami ng news na palpak - pinapareacall na yata ng DTI yan.

**Mile2** · July 2nd, 2009 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by SusieQ

IMHO, Maintenance-free kasi I can forget it for a year or two... but just make sure you get a good quality battery - yung GS parang dami ng news na palpak - pinapareacall na yata ng DTI yan.

GS, I had a long long time bad experience with it, died just 4 months of use and never got a replacement. Sa galit ko pull-out ko na lang and then drop it on the floor and walk away.

**yellahfellah** · July 2nd, 2010 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by SusieQ

IMHO, Maintenance-free kasi I can forget it for a year or two... but just make sure you get a good quality battery - yung GS parang dami ng news na palpak - pinapareacall na yata ng DTI yan.

I guess what it boils down to is what type of car owner you are. Kung masipag kang magkaka-kalikot under the hood, then go for a Low Manitenance battery. On the other hand, if you regularly "forget" (or don't normally bother to) look under the hood, then go for the Maintenace-free kind.

In my experience, I have had a lot of car batteries die on me because I often neglect to check their water levels. So, I now get Maintenance-free batteries. Even if technically, MF batteries supposedly wear out and die faster than LM batteries, if you don't regularly check the water levels then your LM battery will have a much shorter lifespan!

**nic** · August 24th, 2011 09:30 AM

I've only tried "maintenance free" batteries. Probably bought around 7 already (several cars), all Motolite coz of the free delivery.

In my experience, namamatay na sya soon after warranty expires (2-6 months). Mostly automatic din mga kotse namin, and hassle lang kasi kung mamatay biglaan. Example one day ok sya, next day ayaw na mag start (hindi man lang hard start the day before para may warning).

I will try "Low Maintenance" for my next purchase. I want to compare kung mas tatagal ang properly maintained "low maintenance" vs "maintenance free".