Best Battery

[timmytim]

Ok guys who makes the best battery?
I believe duralast gold battery is the best, whats even better is autozone's warranty on batteries

[Thunderfoot]

My personal opinion is any battery that is made by Johnson Controls... Some of the ones I know of are Kirkland (Costco, best price for me) batteries, Interstate Batteries, and NAPA in my area are all made by Johnson Controls. All the ones I have had lasted waaaaaay past their lifetime

Duralast is also made by them. Some more info here http://www.themanufacturer.com/us/profi ... n_Controls

Johnson Controls is also who makes the Optima Gel Cell batteries.

[timmytim]

I thought this would be a hot topic, no pun intended

[BobbyFord]

Back in the day I would buy Delco Freedom batteries. I had one last 9 years once. It seems that quality went down a rew years back.
I have a red Optima in my truck now because the battery is on the frame, under the bed and I did not want to worry about acid seepage and corrosion.

[Kurt Combs]

I don't know if this is still true, but back in the day (when bumps were new) we used to figure all batteries were made at two or three factories, no matter who's name was on them. We just went by their ratings and the best price we could find at that rating.

[Mancar1]

The best battery is the one that works when you turn the key.

[Whateverman]

interstate battery- i had one of them last 10yrs before it calfed it on me - i was pretty impressed...the replacement ones didn't beat that mark,but at least they didn't fail before the warranty expired

the battery i'm most impressed with is the cheapy Energizer one from walmart i've got in my ol' pig (i think its got 450 cold cranking amps) i bought it for my old lincoln towncar ,but ended up not needing it afterall...after losing the reciept of course..(stupid junkyard battery cables)....so it rode around for around probably 2 yrs in the trunk ..in the spare tire well which was full of water... after i parked the lincoln and was stripping it of anything usable i "discovered" the long forgotten battery upside down in the puddle of rusty swamp water in the trunk
well anyways about 6 months later i needed to fire up my ol' pig after its engine swap but the battery i was using just kept dying so i decided to see if the energizer would even do anything - hadn't been charged or anything for over 3yrs probably - i ended up cranking the engine for at least a half hour in total (probably more) while i timed and retimed the motor ...the engine fired up eventually so dunno how much longer the battery could have gone for ,but it didn't seem to phase it much....

[timmytim]

interstate battery- i had one of them last 10yrs before it calfed it on me - i was pretty impressed...the replacement ones didn't beat that mark,but at least they didn't fail before the warranty expired

the battery i'm most impressed with is the cheapy Energizer one from walmart i've got in my ol' pig (i think its got 450 cold cranking amps) i bought it for my old lincoln towncar ,but ended up not needing it afterall...after losing the reciept of course..(stupid junkyard battery cables)....so it rode around for around probably 2 yrs in the trunk ..in the spare tire well which was full of water... after i parked the lincoln and was stripping it of anything usable i "discovered" the long forgotten battery upside down in the puddle of rusty swamp water in the trunk
well anyways about 6 months later i needed to fire up my ol' pig after its engine swap but the battery i was using just kept dying so i decided to see if the energizer would even do anything - hadn't been charged or anything for over 3yrs probably - i ended up cranking the engine for at least a half hour in total (probably more) while i timed and retimed the motor ...the engine fired up eventually so dunno how much longer the battery could have gone for ,but it didn't seem to phase it much....

Thats what Im talking about Whateverman