Battery - Highest Cold Cranking For Cold Region

**Oka** · 10-06-2017, 08:03 AM

Would a 900 Cold Cranking Amps (CCA) be too much for the Alaskan temps?
I currently have a 730 CCA and think I need some more 'juice'.

Thanks

**Astro14** · 10-07-2017, 07:47 AM

Alaska is no colder than Northern Sweden. If the car is in good shape, why not just the OEM Battery?

**Oka** · 10-07-2017, 09:50 AM

Originally Posted by Astro14

Alaska is no colder than Northern Sweden. If the car is in good shape, why not just the OEM Battery?

Alaska is much colder, or equal to Northern Sweden. Northern Alaska can hit at below-sixty.
Fairbanks could about forty-below. However, Anchorage, since the twenty-six years here, I
think the lowest I have had is about below-thirty-five. This was many years ago. It's been at
the ten to twenty-below.

A car being "in good shape" is relative. It's a 2001 car and how many things can be wrong
without knowing. When you really need the car would be when something happens, I have
two young ones also.

Higher cranking worked out so well with my '85 Bimmer. Actually, I was thinking about the
810CCA (+/-) battery. Forgot to mention that we (in Anchorage) tend to leave the heater/blower
on, at least at half mark and directed to the windshield so as to melt the ice before using the wipers.

One aspect I have not considered is using a lighter oil weight than the OEM for the winter.

Thanks.

**AKAMick** · 10-07-2017, 11:31 AM

A H8 is the largest size battery that fits the compartment, intended for the EU diesel models, then use the highest CCA you can get, extra capacity will certainly will not have any negative effects.