iracemine
black and tan
if you wait too long the low volts (speed) will kill the starter.
Are the Optima's worth it?
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acjjkamp
Blitz and Harley
my original ones are on the way to dieing, what about the Interstate brand?
no-red 6 0
Senioritis
i threw in interstates about a month ago.......went w/ the bigger one
BIG DUTY
F-250 Care Taker
Sears Diehard Gold for me. 850CCA and 3 year replacement with 100mo prorate. 109.99 ea
jwv27
SDD Junior Member
I just had to replace the batteries in my 04 superduty I went with a place here in kansas city called best batteries they gave me a 36 month warranty 880cca for $70.00 each they have been good batteries so far.
Tail_Gunner
CRJ & ERJ A&P Mech.
The factory Motorcraft batteies lasted about 5 years for me.
I hate to rain on everyone's parade when it comes to battery brand loyalty. But there is a lot of truth to the statement "they're all the same" when it comes to batteries.
Back when I was traveling around doing industrial testing, one of the places I used to go to was a AC Delco/ Delphi battery plant in Olathe, Kansas. During the course of the visit there, I saw a lot of what was going down the production line. The batteries going down the line never changed, but the labels did. There were about a half dozen different brand names pasted to the sides of the same batteries. It's been long enough where I don't remember all of them, some were better known and some looked like "house" brands. But I do remember Sears Die Hard was one of them.
I hate to rain on everyone's parade when it comes to battery brand loyalty. But there is a lot of truth to the statement "they're all the same" when it comes to batteries.
Back when I was traveling around doing industrial testing, one of the places I used to go to was a AC Delco/ Delphi battery plant in Olathe, Kansas. During the course of the visit there, I saw a lot of what was going down the production line. The batteries going down the line never changed, but the labels did. There were about a half dozen different brand names pasted to the sides of the same batteries. It's been long enough where I don't remember all of them, some were better known and some looked like "house" brands. But I do remember Sears Die Hard was one of them.
acjjkamp
Blitz and Harley
found this while searching for batteries:
The majority of car batteries are created by 3 manufacturers - Delphi, Exide and Johnson Controls Industries. Delphi makes some EverStart models sold in Walmart and ACDelco. Johnson Control Industries makes Duralast seen in Autozone stores, Diehard - sold in Sears, Kirkland - the Costco brand, Motorcraft - which Ford sells, some of the EverStarts, and Interstate.
I ended up going to autozone for mine, our sears didnt have the 850cca's only 750's
The majority of car batteries are created by 3 manufacturers - Delphi, Exide and Johnson Controls Industries. Delphi makes some EverStart models sold in Walmart and ACDelco. Johnson Control Industries makes Duralast seen in Autozone stores, Diehard - sold in Sears, Kirkland - the Costco brand, Motorcraft - which Ford sells, some of the EverStarts, and Interstate.
I ended up going to autozone for mine, our sears didnt have the 850cca's only 750's
BIG DUTY
F-250 Care Taker
Yeah I work at sears right now and JCI delivers our batteries. I was never sure if they were manufactured exactly like a JCI made for another retailer. They probably are unfortunately.
In Time, you may see Exide, or one of the other manufactures deliver batteries to Sears.
Through the years, I've heard & read there are Only X amount of manufactures that make just about ALL, of what we buy.
The key to it is: The Quality Standard, or Specifications, of the Production Run, Lot.. and so on.
The 'Ol Bottom Line.. still holds true though... You Git What You Payed For It (most of the time)
