{"id":897,"date":"2018-02-27T04:41:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T20:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectkeira.com\/home\/?p=897"},"modified":"2021-03-27T16:49:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T08:49:03","slug":"interstate-640-cca-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/interstate-640-cca-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Cell."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday I noticed something weird with my truck &#8211; the windows seemed to roll up and down a little slower than before. I thought nothing of it until Monday morning when I got into my truck to go to work and&#8230; nothing. No cranking sound, no lights in the instrument cluster. I already knew what it was &#8211; battery time. I&#8217;ve been on the original battery since I bought the truck in 2014, so it was about time for a new one. I spent the day (at work, heh) researching what was immediately available. First I called a local Nissan dealership just to get a quote for an OEM battery &#8211; and they wanted $280, no thanks. I looked into AGM batteries but the only immediately available brand was Autozone&#8217;s Duralast line, but I&#8217;ve had mixed results with Duralast in the past. Then I remembered that my parents&#8217; SUV has had the same battery in it (and still working just fine) for the last 5 years, so the next day I brought my dead OEM Nissan battery to&#8230; Costco!<\/p>\n<p>Costco carries <strong>Interstate batteries<\/strong>, and I&#8217;ve always heard nothing but good experiences with the brand. Getting the new battery was fast and easy, I just gave them my dead battery (so no core charge) and walked out with a brand new group 35 Interstate battery (after paying, of course). The new Interstate battery is rated at 640-CCA (OEM is 550) with a reserve capacity of 100 minutes at 25-amps. Also, I was expecting a 3-year warranty, but apparently the new models now come with a 42-month (3 1\/2 year) warranty. And the best part: it only cost me $70.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-898\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-898\" src=\"https:\/\/projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/raine_ft_intersate01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/raine_ft_intersate01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/raine_ft_intersate01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/raine_ft_intersate01-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New battery, Interstate Group 35 640CCA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since I already took the day off, I decided to do some routine maintenance as well. After cleaning the battery terminals and installing the new Interstate battery, I went out to pick up a few things: new oil filter, 6 quarts of Mobil 1 5W-30, new OEM air filter and OEM cabin filter. I also checked and topped up the other fluids under the hood, checked my tire pressures, and greased up my UCA bushings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-899\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/raine_ft_oilchange.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/raine_ft_oilchange.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/raine_ft_oilchange-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/raine_ft_oilchange-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keeping the engine running happy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday I noticed something weird with my truck &#8211; the windows seemed to roll&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,634],"tags":[388,393,396,391,389,387,390,392,55,15,395,394],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engine-drivetrain-stuff","category-nissan-oem-parts","tag-640-cca","tag-air-filter","tag-cabin-filter","tag-costco","tag-group-35","tag-interstate-batteries","tag-main-battery","tag-mobil-1","tag-nissan","tag-oem","tag-oil-change","tag-oil-filter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}