Interesting, Panasonic is known for making great AGM batteries. My last Hybrid (Toyota Camry) had a 10 year old AGM and it was still going strong. This was a common story among Toyota Hybrid owners for many, many years.
My Cub Cadet battery 2 years. This is because I did not put the battery on battery maintainer (charger). Did you put your Cub Cadet battery on a charger during the off season?
. RE: AGM cadet battery. I have Polaris ranger and a Troy Bilt Super Bronco mower which is super similar to Cub cadet made by Troy Bilt and sharing part numbers. Both have small AGM which manuals call for those AGM to be stored over winter in non freezing conditions with a maintainer attached. I am in central Texas so I leave them outside and use them at least monthly along with a battery maintainer every 4-6 weeks. I had health issues one year and left them untouched. The ranger battery had less than 1 volt do my Novo gen 5 would not see it to charge it. I jumped it with a 12v flooded and put my noco onto the flooded battery. The next day I removed jump and put Noco into AGM mode and left it on Polaris battery for a month. That was five years ago still using battery. Mower battery was seen and directly charged by maintainer and is also still in use. In years past son sold motor sports and the AGM for them were only warranted for six months because if they were not completely charged and did not see a charger for six months they would die. It's not so much the batteries are bad as it's they are never let to rest with a full charge on anything.
Slight correction, MTD makes Cub, Troy and a number of other yard machines in the Cleveland Ohio area. MTD bought Troy in 2001, Cub in 1981, also MTD®, MTD Gold®, MTD Pro®, Yard-Man®, Yard Machines® and Bolens®.
Yep MTD bought Troy, I forgot. It's like musical chairs. Stanley Black & Decker bought 20% MTD IN 2001 & remaining 80% in 2021. The Super Bronco was a slightly cheaper cub made for Lowe's big box "exclusive we have it no one else does" (at least initially). I only found out when I had to buy blades and discovered similar part nums. I use my mower hard 100-120 hours per year. Gotta check fluid in hydro drive this year and replace fan from 6 foot thistle stalk that rolled drive belt off pulley and did it in. May fix it and sell it and get new one. My 1986 Ford 1210 tractor needs new wiring tires, hydraulic hoses, etc.
Flooded . I guess they were out of the AGM that day . Just read on Ford website AGM batteries are meant for vehicles with start/stop technology as in Maverick. Go figure !
My theory is. When the parts bin runs out of a non critical part, whether it be a glove compartment door damper or an insulating pad for the fender. They don't stop the line. The truck gets moved along and assembled without it.
Apparently there were many ‘22 models, both EB and Hybrid, that had flooded batteries because of supply chain issues with AGM. The same issue applied to ‘23 models, but to a lesser degree. Compounding the issue, when owners used Forscan to adjust voltage on those models, the battery types were already set to AGM even with the Flooded battery types.
This is interesting information. So why is it so many people are having problems w/ AGM batteries with vehicles that are being operated daily?
I too have typically had good luck with OE batteries, and replaced few in my lifetime, often trading in the vehicle before I ever replaced one.
Interesting you said that about your ram since mine lasted 9 years in my ram. the second battery is 7 years and no problems yet.
