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07-31-2013, 02:17 PM | #17 |
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Who knew there were only two battery manufacturers?
The best car battery I ever had was made by Panasonic. OEM in my Acura and finally died after eight years. |
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07-31-2013, 02:38 PM | #20 |
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Ummm, okay...
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07-31-2013, 02:39 PM | #21 |
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There are only 3, I believe, manufacturers that make car batteries and only 2 are large companies that make the majority of them.
Johnson Controls is the one that people consider to be the premier manufacturer and they make the Interstate, DieHard, Duralast, and some of the Wal-mart Maxx batteries. I just choose from those 4 depending on which has the best deal going on when I need to buy. I prefer DieHard or Duralast since they offer the best warranties. Interstate only gives you 2 years free replacement instead of 3 and I think Wal-marts Maxx batteries only come with 3 year warranties while the other 3 come with 5 year. |
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07-31-2013, 02:42 PM | #22 |
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Interstate, and any of their licensed dealer locations will give you credit for the time you didn't get use if it fails early. They have 72 month options.
You may need to by a battery with more cca, that may be why they are not lasting.
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07-31-2013, 02:45 PM | #23 |
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So do the others. Except Interstates pro-rate warranty kicks in 1 year sooner than the others but all of the warranties expire after 5 years. Unless there is a sale on for Interstate batteries they are generally more expensive than the exact same battery sold at Sears or Autozone that comes with a different sticker.
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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, 03:21 PM | #26 |
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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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That's actually a really good idea. There's a whole lot of market research value in mining hundreds of millions of conversations.
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Just got a battery from Sams Club. It had a 3 year warranty and I had it 2 years and 10 months. They gave me a brand new one and a new 3 year warranty for zero cost to me.
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