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Old 03-20-2018, 11:40 AM
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Mrs Fox had new batteries installed yesterday - in her cart, that is - and they are stamped D8 which, according to the Trojan website, means they were finished in April 2018.

Not bad, for batteries installed in March 2018.

Any idea what's going on here?
From their website

How do you read the date codes on the batteries?
Negative Terminal- Shipping Date. This code indicates the month and year when the battery was shipped out of our factory. LETTER stands for the month, A to L (A=January, B=February, C=March, and so on); NUMBER is the last digit of the year.

Example:

A battery with “G4” on the negative.
“G4” means that it was shipped from our factory around July of 2014.

Around is not the same as exactly. Wiggle room
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