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Arctic Fox 03-20-2018 08:27 AM

Battery date
 
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?

Bogie Shooter 03-20-2018 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox (Post 1525055)
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?

Does Trojan have a “contact us” icon?

blueash 03-20-2018 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox (Post 1525055)
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

Arctic Fox 03-20-2018 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by blueash (Post 1525124)
"A battery with “G4” on the negative terminal means that it was shipped from our factory around July of 2014."
Around is not the same as exactly. Wiggle room

Very odd, though, that they would have the "April 2018" stamp in use before April even comes around.

I don't call that "wiggle room" - I call that blatant lying.

Bogie Shooter 03-20-2018 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox (Post 1525130)
Very odd, though, that they would have the "April 2018" stamp in use before April even comes around.

I don't call that "wiggle room" - I call that blatant lying.

Why don’t you call them rather than making these wild accusations?

Arctic Fox 03-20-2018 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter (Post 1525146)
Why don’t you call them rather than making these wild accusations?

I hardly think that having batteries installed in March that claim to have been delivered in April constitutes "wild accusations".

Trojan has a different letter for each month of the year, "D" being April. If the batteries left the factory in March they should be stamped "C", not "D".

Since they are clearly and unequivocally post-dating them, one has to wonder why.

I have e-mailed Trojan for an explanation and will let you know here what their reply is.

Bogie Shooter 03-20-2018 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox (Post 1525164)
I hardly think that having batteries installed in March that claim to have been delivered in April constitutes "wild accusations".

Trojan has a different letter for each month of the year, "D" being April. If the batteries left the factory in March they should be stamped "C", not "D".

Since they are clearly and unequivocally post-dating them, one has to wonder why.

I have e-mailed Trojan for an explanation and will let you know here what their reply is.

"I call that blatant lying."

Arctic Fox 03-20-2018 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter (Post 1525174)
"I call that blatant lying."

I'm sorry, but I do not understand your logic, Bogie Shooter.

The above quote is certainly an accusation - that any company claiming to have delivered batteries in April, when I have them in my cart a month earlier, is lying - but why do you consider that accusation to be wild when the facts speak for themselves?

As Blueash astutely points out, it gives them wiggle room. The question is "from what are they trying to wiggle?"

Anyway, I'm sure Trojan will have a perfectly valid explanation for not wanting to use their March stamp on March batteries, and any suggestion that they are trying to hoodwink their customers into thinking that the batteries are newer than they really are will be safely put to rest.

Bogie Shooter 03-20-2018 03:49 PM

Like I said Trojan has the right answer.

Biker Dog 03-21-2018 04:07 AM

Big deal, so you get a free extra month on the warranty.

Rapscallion St Croix 03-21-2018 07:07 AM

If it is the battery in my defib implant I am concerned. In my golf cart, if I am prioritizing, I guess I would put it somewhere between gas stations still using the 9/10 of a cent on their price per gallon and Pluto losing its status as a planet.

Arctic Fox 03-21-2018 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Rapscallion St Croix (Post 1525357)
...I would put it somewhere between gas stations still using the 9/10 of a cent on their price per gallon...

I would certainly put that one ahead of the batteries :-)

Arctic Fox 03-21-2018 12:49 PM

Question:
I had six new T105s installed in my golf cart yesterday - March 20, 2018 When I checked the date code on each battery it was D8. How can you claim that a battery was shipped in April 2018 when I have it installed a month earlier?

Response from Trojan:
The finishing date code “D8” represents this battery had its last inspection and left the plant in Feb. 2018. This will correlate with the assembly date code laser etched into the cover, located in the center of cover near fill holes. I will see about getting that changed in our documentation on “How to read the date codes”.

Dr Winston O Boogie jr 03-21-2018 06:34 PM

It's probably just a case where the stamp the batteries with the date that they expect them to leave the factory. I'm sure that they don't have someone stamping the batteries as they are loaded onto a truck. They probably sold a few more batteries than they expected in March so a few April batteries got shipped a week or two earlier.

I don't see it as a big deal and as has been pointed out, unless the warranty starts on the purchase date you'll get an extra month on the warranty.

I don't know what you're suspicious about. What would the company have to gaon by stamping a battery with a date that a week or two early.

DonH57 03-21-2018 08:58 PM

Every thing fails the day after the warranty expires.


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