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Date Codes
All batteries should have a date the battery was manufactured; the hard part is deciphering how to read them. Most battery companies will use a letter for the month and a number for the year.
Typically somewhere in the date stamp it will stand for:
A – January
B – February
C – March
D – April
And so on… Some manufacturers leave out the I to avoid confusion with 1.
9 – 2009
0 – 2010
1 – 2011
2 – 2012
And so on…
This is how we date all of our batteries; they are stamped into the top of the case on the edge of the battery close to the positive terminal.
AC Delco/Global date code
KS2K14, the bolded letters are the important ones, 2K is November 2012, ie 14/11/2012
KJ9D03, this is April 2009, ie 03/04/2009
The last two numbers are the day of the month it was manufactured.
I am not entirely sure what the first two letters stand for my guess is the factory or line they were manufactured, the last 2 numbers are for the day of manufacture.
Delkor date code
2CR22, the bolded letters are the important ones, 2C is April 2012, 22/04/2012
8AR13, January 2008, 13/01/2008
The last two numbers are the day of the month it was manufactured.
Fullriver date code
They use the date in reverse to how we do ie YY/MM/DD.
K120802 is 2nd August 2012
K100324 is 24th March 2010
Date Codes
All batteries should have a date the battery was manufactured; the hard part is deciphering how to read them. Most battery companies will use a letter for the month and a number for the year.
Typically somewhere in the date stamp it will stand for:
A – January
B – February
C – March
D – April
And so on… Some manufacturers leave out the I to avoid confusion with 1.
9 – 2009
0 – 2010
1 – 2011
2 – 2012
And so on…
This is how we date all of our batteries; they are stamped into the top of the case on the edge of the battery close to the positive terminal.
AC Delco/Global date code
KS2K14, the bolded letters are the important ones, 2K is November 2012, ie 14/11/2012
KJ9D03, this is April 2009, ie 03/04/2009
The last two numbers are the day of the month it was manufactured.
I am not entirely sure what the first two letters stand for my guess is the factory or line they were manufactured, the last 2 numbers are for the day of manufacture.
Delkor date code
2CR22, the bolded letters are the important ones, 2C is April 2012, 22/04/2012
8AR13, January 2008, 13/01/2008
The last two numbers are the day of the month it was manufactured.
Fullriver date code
They use the date in reverse to how we do ie YY/MM/DD.
K120802 is 2nd August 2012
K100324 is 24th March 2010
