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07-31-2013, 01:15 PM | Topic Starter |
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Which Manufacturer Makes The Most Reliable Car Battery?
I may be cursed, but I seem to average about three years in each of my cars until the battery craps out. So, I'm looking for the longest-lasting and most reliable battery made. I don't really care about the cost.
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07-31-2013, 01:21 PM | #2 |
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I used to always get Interstate but it seems like their prices have gone up and their quality has gone down. Lately I have been getting Kirkland at Costco since they have a good warranty and get very good reviews.
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07-31-2013, 01:23 PM | #3 |
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Most batteries are made by one or two facilities and then OEM tagged by resellers anyway.
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07-31-2013, 01:34 PM | #4 |
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07-31-2013, 03:21 PM | #5 |
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Have the Autozone battery I bought in 2002. Only concern is, if the car is resistant to an easy start, it only holds about an 8-10 try reserve. It's wearing down and clearly doesn't have the deep capacity, but unless I do something stupid like run out of gas, or happen to get some bad/dirty gasm it's still capable of reliable to maintain CCAs from the alternator replenishment for a reliable first/second/third turn start.
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07-31-2013, 03:28 PM | #6 |
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07-31-2013, 01:45 PM | #7 |
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True, like antifreeze. But don't they build them to different specs depending on client?
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07-31-2013, 01:55 PM | #9 |
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This, and it has been this way a long time. I usually buy Autozone, and they have taken pretty good care of me. Oh, and taking care of the battery is the most important step in getting long life. If the car sits a while, plug a battery tender into it. I just had a cheap Autozone battery last 10 years in the Barracuda.
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07-31-2013, 01:27 PM | #12 |
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By the way, if cost is no object an Optima Yellowtop gel battery is generally considered very long lasting
http://www.optimabatteries.com/us/en...cts/yellowtop/ |
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I had some problems with the last Interstate and they are well over $100 around here so switched to Kirkland, though we went with a Honda battery when my wife's CR-V needed one. It wasn't any more expensive than an aftermarket battery and was guaranteed to fit perfectly (really tight battery location). We got six years out of the first one. |
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Red Tops are for your basic Hot Rod, Daily Driver, SUV etc. Your basic car battery. Yellow Tops are for accessory loaded vehicles. Vehicles with a shit load of accessory lighting, massive stereo systems etc. You'd want a yellow top if it's an offroad vehicle with excessive lighting or for show cars that are going to sit there with all of its gadgets and stereo equipment on. If you're building the car right, ideally you would have both a red top and a yellow top in the car. Blue Tops are for marine applications (boats etc). That's pretty much all they offer. So if you REALLY want an Optima, you should be using a red top in your basic car. Our shop ended up with a bunch of free Optima batteries that we couldnt do anything with. It's a shame too, because i personally set up the sponsorship with those guys and spent a lot of time on it. At the end of the day, they were't dependable and we ended up having to swap Interstates into all of our cars. About two years ago we discovered an AMAZING battery. It's ultra compact, which is great for us since often times we have to relocate the batteries to the trunk, has the same CCA as the larger Interstates and Optimas. I'm not sure if you can pick it up locally or not, but it's made by Odyssey. Since we've started using Odyssey batteries, we haven't looked back since. The only other battery we'll use is an Interstate if it's going into a basic car. |
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