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I’ve had good luck with Deka battery’s. The one in my 68 lasted 18 years.
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Deka is also made by East Penn, along with several other brand names already mentioned.
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East Penn builds the Deka's, Duracell's, & at least for quite a few years, NAPA's auto batteries.
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Last week I bought $650 worth of NAPA 6v deep cycle batteries for my backup power system. Hoping I get 10 years out of them.
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I just replaced the Autozone Duralast Gold in my daily driver, a 2005 Chrysler Pacifica, with an Interstate battery from Costco. Some history on the Duralasts I've had, which are Group 34:
I installed a Duralast Gold in January 2010; it tested as having a bad cell, replaced with another Duralast Gold in March 2014, 50 months. I replaced the March 2014 battery in December 2016, bad cell again, at 33 months. The replacement was free but the warranty date on the replacement started in March 2014. I replaced the Duralast Gold with the Costco Interstate battery in November 2020, technically at 47 months. There wouldn't have been any warranty credit to speak of from Autozone at that point, going from the March 2014 battery's date. The Duralast had been performing badly for at least six months, which I attributed to the car not being driven much due to COVID. If it sat for a week it wouldn't start, so I'd throw a Battery Tender on it and charge it. In November I drove the car on a couple of long trips and it wouldn't start later that week, so I charged it completely then took it to Autozone. They threw a load tester on it and said "it's good". I told them that I had just fully charged it so they tested it again and they said that it was dropping fast. I thanked them and told them that I was going to shop around. I got the Costco battery for at least $35 less than I was going to get a comparable battery anywhere else, comes with three year replacement warranty (I won't have the Pacifica that long). Interestingly, Costco doesn't have any way to test a battery and doesn't install them either, so in theory you'd think that you could walk in at 35 months, say "battery's no good" and they'd give you another, but obviously that one wouldn't have any warranty, and you could only do that once, but in theory if you got 35 months out of the first one, then the "free, no warranty" battery lasted for 5 years, you'd get eight years out of one purchase. Not worth the hassle to me though. |
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Delco only for me. This ones been working fine for 8 yrs and it looks the part of being somewhat oem. I would never put in a colored battery under the hood.
Sent from my SM-G970U using Tapatalk Last edited by Stuart; 12-23-2020 at 03:55 PM. |
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Interstate FTW
One of my cars still has an Interstate dated 2005 |
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The GTO gets a battery that fits that also has stickers that can be pulled off leaving a black box. I've purchased 2 batteries for it in the 20+ years I've owned the car and brand wasn't part of the equation.
The wifes 2012 Highlander has had one replacement. I bought a "Duracell" from the local batteries place about a year ago and it starts the car. It was the best deal and also the easiest. The 2016 F150 (with auto stop/start) has a factory agm battery and at 70,000 miles it seems happy in it's work. I haven't bought many batteries over the years.
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I have a Braille AGM that got ran FLAT several times, yet is still performing great. It is about 8 years old now.
I've also had great results with XS Power AGMs. I'll take Braille or XS Power over Optima, Optimas have been rather disappointing in my experiences.
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Agree, these colored batteries look ridiculous. I’ve been using Delco for about 50 years now. Never a problem.
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