How To Read Car Battery Date Codes. In this video I tell you about the date on a car battery and how to read it. The date code can be a bit hard to find especially when other codes such as model and serial numbers also printed on the battery tag.
The second character of the code is a numeral that stands for the year. 61 unless otherwise specified one date code will be marked on the package plate of blisters or cards for finished cells. Joined Mar 21 2010.
For example P 097N means the battery was made in September 2017.
The date code on Interstate batteries which start with the letter U such as the U2200 is 3 digits long. The code is engraved into the positive terminal. The letter corresponds with the month the battery was manufactured A for January B for February etc and the number indicates the year 2 for 2012 3 for 2013 etc. The second character is a Number which represents the last digit of.
