Hal

I've got a 1995 BMW R1100r motorcycle I bought used a few months ago. Previous owner purchased an expensive BMW gel cell battery 2.5 years ago, along with an official BMW gel cell battery charger. Battery has had a harder and harder time starting the bike until a few days ago when it just wouldn't turn the engine over.

Charged the battery overnight, and it still wouldn't start the bike. Took it out and took it to O'Reilly's Auto Parts, who said they couldn't really test a gel cell, but they tested it anyway and said it was bad. Took it to AutoZone and they said it was good, up to 200 cold cranking amps. Batteries Plus said it was good, also.

Took it back to the house and had to charge it overnight before the "battery fully charged" light on the charger came on. Left it unconnected to anything for the day, plugged it back in when I got home, and was getting the 80%+ charged light indicator, and it took about 5 hours before it showed fully charged again (again, not attached to anything, except when connected to the charger while it was plugged in).

So, it appears to have enough cold cranking amps, but won't hold a charge overnight, even when completely disconnected.

What's going on, and what do I do about it?

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This question is asked in ignorance, and I have no agenda, nor desire to offend.

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