New Battery Time I'm Thinking

[EdHale]

My current set of batteries has been in service for approx 5 years and this is the only set I have purchased since the truck was new which will be 10 years next month. I can't complain I suppose, but I'm thinking I'm about due for another set.

I am currently hosting at a state park in Florida and drive my truck about once a week to go to town. 2-3 days ago I started it and when I looked at the DIC it was telling me to change my oil and the oil % left was zero. I changed the oil an reset the DIC at that time 1,500 miles ago. So I reset it again just to keep the message from popping up. I change my oil/filter every 5,000 miles anyway so it being reset now doesn't bother me. Then I noticed the radio wasn't on the correct band so I reset that. Then I noticed the clock was wrong so I reset that.

Now yesterday I started it and it didn't seem like the starter was as robust as it should be and it took a second or so longer for the engine to start.

Would low voltage/tired batteries during starting cause the radio and DIC issues described? I'm pretty sure about the starting issue because I know this truck pretty well after 10 years. I know I could have the batteries load tested which I will do before replacing them, but just curious from the experts here.

Update: I just checked the DIC again and the engine hours has been reset to zero again also. This happened about 5 years ago too. So let me see, 150,000 miles in 4 hours? This truck is definitely fast.

Thanks.

Ed