Are you looking for a hard-to-find cable? Don't want to pay a couple hundred bucks for a flimsy cable from the dealer?  Tired of poor quality auto store cables?  Wouldn't it be nice if that big block V8 or diesel in your favorite car, truck, boat or RV cranked over a little easier?  Do you want the best?  Well, you've come to the right place! 

Welcome to CustomBatteryCables.com!  I think we build the best aftermarket cables available.  I started building battery cables for heavy equipment and my own trucks over 20 years ago.  During that time I can't recall ever having to replace a cable due to corrosion or over heating.  Why?  I build 'em better.  I use better components and construction. See how I build them and how they compare to the store bought cables.

Please take a few minutes to check out my customer's cars (I have not had time to add to this lately, but keep sending me pictures), what they have to say and, of course, order cables for your own car or truck.  

What's New:

6/20/2009 Update:
4 weeks ago Teresa delivered identical twins Vincent (6 lbs 1oz) and Mark (5 lbs 10 oz). Teresa and the boys are doing well. My knee is still a mess but an un-loader brace and a shot of cortisone has helped with the pain.

Since I'm chronically sleep deprived from helping Teresa change diapers at 2AM, I'm trying to line up some help building cables.  An old friend of mine who also happens to be an electronics tech will be helping so we'll be taking orders soon.  I plan to begin contacting the folks on the waiting list this week.  I'll give the first 10 a chance to place orders then the next ten until I've worked thru the list.  Then I'll reopen the web site for normal sales.   

While we've been closed for retail sales, we've continued shipping commercial orders and have made a deal with Simple Engineering to build components for their SSR spare tire kit.

2/14/2009 Update-
The last two existing cable orders shipped today.  Thank you for your patience.   

Many thanks to those who emailed wishing me a speedy recovery and a wishing my wife all the best.  Her pregnancy is going well and the doctor says the TWIN BOYS are looking healthy.

The waiting list is growing.  I hope to re-open in 3 weeks for waiting-list customers only and 6 weeks for all others. Of course, this depends on my health (I might need a knee replacement) and the health of Teresa and the boys.  When I do reopen I'll offer a "rush" service (1-2 weeks) for an extra 20%, standard service (14 - 30 days)  for standard price and a "no rush discount" service for a 10% discount. This way people in a hurry can pay extra and get special attention and those who are not can get a discount.  It seems fair to me and will help me to schedule work more efficiently.  I will still try to build our most popular items well in advance.

1/29/2009 -
I've still got about 7 or 8 orders to fill before I'm caught up.  I hope get most of them shipped by Monday Feb 1.  I've received many emails asking when we'll be accepting orders so I've started a waiting list. When we reopen I'll email everyone on the list the day we reopen so they can be first in line.  Email sales@custombatterycables.com and put "waiting list" in the subject. (Note: the link above will try to send an email.  If you don't have a default email program defined it might try to install Outlook or some other mail program.  If it does just cancel the install, start your email program or go to your web mail site and type the email address into the "To:" field.)

1/13/2009 -
I need to take some time off from building cables due to a knee injury and family issues (my wife and I are expecting twins). Therefore, I have disabled the "add to cart" button on all the assembled cable sets. After my knee heals and I've made progress on getting the house ready for the twins, I'll start selling these again.  I hope to begin selling these again by the end on March 2009. Until then we will be selling parts only.  ALL EXISTING ORDERS WILL BE FILLED.  Due to the knee injury I'm about 4 weeks behind.  That's why I've stopped taking new orders.  I don't want to make people wait more than 4 weeks.

1/2/2009 -
Happy New Year!
Because we continue to be 3 weeks or more behind in filling orders I have disabled the "add to cart" button on the Dodge and Ford sets.  These are large complicated cables that are very time consuming to build.  When I get reasonably caught up and have 8 or 10 of these sets in stock I will start selling them again.  I am sorry That I have to take this necessary step but I refuse to take orders that I don't think I can fill in a timely manner (ie less than 30 days).

12/28/2008 -
Current lead time for cables is improving but it's still about 3 weeks.  Paid order have priority over answering emails so I'm a bit behind on emails. Changes to the F350 page are complete.

12/23/2008 -
Merry Christmas!. 
We've been about 3-4 weeks behind in filling orders.  However I have 2 weeks off from my day job due to a "plant shut-down" (fairly common in the electronic industry).  I hope to get caught up by New Years and to make some improvements to the web site.  I'll be adding jeep 5.2L cables and some options for the F350.

10/29/08 -
1) I fixed a bug in the custom order page and added some error checking so customer can't order a cable if the form is filled out wrong. Thank you to the customers who pointed it out.
2) We discontinued free shipping for orders over $150.  Due to increasing costs I found I had to do something to improve the bottom line and this was a way to do it without having to raise prices. Shipping prices are still very fair at $12 for USPS priority mail flat rate box.
3) Current wait time from order to ship is about 3 weeks.  I hope to get that down to 1 week in December.

10/18/2008 - I'm starting a new day job and I will have less time to devote to cables. Please be patient.

9/30/2008 - I have been having significant problems bring up the "new and improved" custom order page. Therefore, I put the old page back up with updated prices.  See Custom Order Page

7/27/2008 - The Dodge Ram and F350 cable pages are back online with updated prices. 

7/23/2008 - Broken Email:  My internet service provider implemented a new spam filter which quarantined over 100 customer emails (I was wondering why I wasn't getting any email).  Now I'm over 100 emails behind and have some upset customers.  It will probably take several days to sort thru the old emails and send replies.

7/12/2008 - We took a week off to attend my wife's family reunion in Menard, Texas but now we're back to work and all paid cable orders will be shipped this weekend.  

6/15/2008 -   Unfortunately, I need to raise prices or go out of business. With the high price of copper and fuel I can not continue to sell cables at the price I was asking.  I am in the process of  review and raising prices where needed.  I am changing the most popular sets first.

4/15/2008 - Now that the taxes are complete and paid, we will be accepting orders very soon.  Unfortunately the effect of doing taxes has made it clear that I need to raise prices in order to stay in business.  We will began accepting orders but our prices WILL be going up.  The on-line ordering web pages will go up as I make edits to the prices. 

3/15/2008 - This weekend we completed and shipped all paid orders.  We will remain closed for 3 to 4 more weeks. 

2/20/2008 - We are closed for a few weekends to take care of some personal business and to enjoy spring time in Arizona. We will reopen in a few weeks. We will fill all existing orders and we will continue to sell parts and some cables that we have pre-made but we will not be doing any custom work. Emails and phone calls may not be answered.  Some web pages have been taken down or disabled to prevent people from ordering.

2/14/2008 - We will be closing for a couple weeks for spring break.  During that time we will continue to sell parts and some premade sets but custom orders will be shut down.  We will shut down on 2/20.  We will fill any orders we get by that date. I had marine wire as an option for the custom order page but I have decided to remove it until I get a better source for the wire.

1/12/2008 - I am in the process of updating our prices..  I'm changing them to more accurately reflect our actual costs.  I expect large complicated cables to go up slightly (the Ford F350 set went up about $10) however smaller cables might go down in price.  It will take a few weeks to complete the changes.

1/5/2008 - Happy New Year!   I am making some changes to the web site.  I'm adding a series of pages with automotive and battery tips and tricks.  The new pages will feature subjects such as: safety tips, how to test and install a battery, how to tell if you need new cables and other stuff like that. We welcome submissions. If you want to share your tips, you are welcome to submit a document and we will post it to our website. You may also include your contact information. As always, we reserve the right to reject any submission.

Some darn SPAMmer forged a custombatterycables.com email address, the result was a flood of "email undeliverable" error messages in our inbox.  We did not, nor will we ever, send unsolicited email.  People get way too much of this junk and it's worse than irritating, it wastes time, money and energy. 

12/19/2007 - I added the Jeep Wrangler page.  Many thanks to the customer who took the measurements and pictures.