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The facts are that the 3.6 V6 in its normal 300 hp form can deliver an easy 500 mile range, and with far less complexity and cost.

I'm done with Covid after a miserable week.

Easy enough to compare the voltage under the hood with what the battery reads.

That should not be an issue with cables sized for jump starting, when the maintainer only puts out an amp or three.

I like BatteryMINDer and PulseTech. Both have desulfation.

Fixed it for you, 2nd.

Which they can't if you have snow chains installed, and they're tight.

Supposedly they just decided not to build two wind farms in the drink by New Jersey.

It's really the static loaded radius that counts, so maybe play with the tire pressures? A half inch of height disappears quickly with less psi.

And circular, right?

Now you sound like a Floridian.

When those little Mercedes SUVs came out I played in some large sand dunes with one. Wide tires and enough power made it quite capable...until... Decided to shoot a bowl, going up a slope at a slight angle, then sideways towards the top (or as close to it as the vehicle will make it), ready to...

Yep, that sounds like my attempts with the 'Cat, except with the "uphill" at the road, and ditches and fence posts instead of trees. At least I can blame it on the tires - that I put on it.

Okay, so it's not exactly full-on traffic on our road, but people do occasionally drive by. And it should make you feel better that I got the GT AWD specifically to use on wet or snowy days, saving the 'Cat from the embarrassment of not being able to claw its way to the road, or up to proper...

See, they don't even consider lowlifes like Floridians.

Ha ha, it's not as bad as it sounds. The oil change before hibernation generally happens in late December, on a day when the roads are nice and dry, but the driveway has hard packed snow on it. With my tires, when putting it in gear on flat ground, one of two things happen. It goes nowhere as...

Yeah, but we can get a lot more miles on the odometer when driving on snow. My driveway is about 14 times longer in the winter according to the 'Cat.

Could've been much worse. Some people could've left three more doors open.

I get that, but there was an obvious load on the charging system, so energy was going into something. The three batteries were in parallel, so I suppose the the two good ones could put a load on the charging system, but then I'd think that the starter would have worked.

A couple of years ago I thought the starter in my Peterbilt had died, only getting a click from the solenoid. Somehow I deducted that it was actually battery related and tried jump starting it. Didn't work. At that time it was running on three Group 31 Optimas out of four, as one had died a...