DTMenace and I were talking this summer about original equipment and I showed him my original battery on my 2005 coupe. Given these are probably becoming uncommon after 13 years (in my case), we thought pictures would be nice to post. The battery is still holding on to life, but just barely. The trickle charger now takes ~ 12 hours to go green after the Crossfire makes a one hour trip out of the garage.


The other terminal had a black cap that is now trapped out of reach by the engine.

 

They were good batteries, I took the one from my 2005 SRT to the recycle depot last year, it still worked fine but I replaced it in the car in 2012 as I do not run batteries past four or five years. I purchased the car in 2011. I just got fed up keeping it charged up, maybe I should have kept it as a spare. The battery I replaced it with died one winter just after the 100% replacement warranty ran out, I replaced it with an AGM type battery.

 

I still have my original battery in my srt6. It works just fine, didnt put on the trickle charger all summer, and my car was down for a month doing tranny mods....fired right up afterwards. They are good batteries for sure!! My 93 cobra is on its second battery now, maybe they don't make batteries like they used to. As a side note, my cars are NOT daily drivers(never were either) and they stay garaged all year long, so maybe that helps with battery life!