I used to buy the big name brands , I work across the street from a battery distributor and he told me how there are basically two manufactures left due to all the environmental restrictions ]
My battery's say Rural King for that very reason lol.I used to buy the big name brands , I work across the street from a battery distributor and he told me how there are basically two manufactures left due to all the environmental restrictions , he has a bunch of different stickers he slaps on the batteries for the different brands, so not much difference really in brands. This battery with his sticker on it cost me 60 bucks, I have the same type in my wife's truck and my truck with no problems at all.
What about Optima? I know they're more of a specialty battery but a battery nonetheless.I used to buy the big name brands , I work across the street from a battery distributor and he told me how there are basically two manufactures left due to all the environmental restrictions , he has a bunch of different stickers he slaps on the batteries for the different brands, so not much difference really in brands. This battery with his sticker on it cost me 60 bucks, I have the same type in my wife's truck and my truck with no problems at all.
I buy batteries for my toy and she buys batteries for hersYour wife wants her batteries back
I buy batteries for my toy and she buys batteries for hers
Thats only fair.
Now, my ex has to pull start her toy like a lawnmower
Yes, they are a sealed battery.Are odyssey battery's the type you can lay on there side and they won't leak etc
That sir would be incorrect.I've always had great luck with the Duralast Gold batteries.
IMHO there is no reason to buy an expensive battery. All it needs to do is start the car. Stuff like the Optimas are nothing more than engine bay bling.
Your wife wants her batteries back
That sir would be incorrect.
Every car I've had in the last several years (whether it be street car, or race car) has had it's battery in the trunk. Relocating a conventional "wet" battery to the trunk requires a stupid looking and clunky battery box, and needs to be vented. In a racing application, every thing from a small crash, to a violent wheelstand usually results in that front mounted battery blowing it's load all over the engine and inner fender panel.....Even when that doesn't happen, the attractive green fungoo that forms all over the terminal posts and connections in a matter of a couple of weeks as a byproduct of a wet battery, is reason enough to NOT buy a crap, wet battery.
And that isn't even starting down the path of how a dry battery is a better tech solution for any hobby/street/racecar than a standard plate design wet battery.
The Optima has been in my trunk connected for over a year,..there is no crusty green/white junk on anything back there.
it's always that way now isn't it? It doesn't matter what it is,..Optima Batteries, MSD ignition's/distributors, GE appliances, Vizio TV's...On3 Turbo systems.....Then there's always that one guys who says...
I will never buy another (whatever you bought) for as long as I live.
I retired from the AF, many of you know this. All of the Aerospace Ground Equipment at several installations, use nothing but Optima batteries. Big diesel generators all the way down to lightweight air-carts. Yep... That's good enough for me. They must be THAT damned good. I go buy one... Ouchie.
Long story short, the thing has a breakdown of the spiral wound coils inside. It wasn't very old, I was still at the same station where I bought it (BX had a sale). I replace it... Same thing again. Mind you, it doesn't just die a little inside every day (like your wives), it just flat out stops working.
Everything seems to come in threes so I've not purchased a third. I buy OEM quality lead-acid batteries for my STREET car. This battery technology vs. that one and etc... Lead-acid still has the highest reserve capacity that I'm aware of.
I do agree that lead-acid has no place on a car that is regularly tracked.
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