Battery replacement

Lugger007 · Oct 4, 2015

Pretty sure my batteries died tonight. What is everyone using to replace their stock battery? I need to replace these quick as I need the truck to tow this week. I'm looking for something with a high cca for cold starts. Was told to look into gel over acid batteries.
What's everyone using or recommend? I'm replacing them in pair

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Stangr8cr · Oct 4, 2015

Always have good luck with Optima batteries. I've run them in every vehicle I've owned be it race or street and never had one fail. Going on 9 years in the expy, 6 on the Mach 1, and just got 2 red tops for the truck instead of waiting for the originals to $hit the bed.

Keith

Bigdiezel · Oct 4, 2015

Oddyssey's , never had luck with optimas.

Ipkyss · Oct 4, 2015

I love optimas. I have a few that are ten years old and still going strong. I put red tops in my 08 four years ago and still going strong. For a normal priced battery I use a lot of Duralast gold from autozone. The warranty is hard to beat even though I have never had to use it.

NickPic83 · Oct 4, 2015

Die hard platinum gets my vote

jcain · Oct 4, 2015

Fomoco

Lugger007 · Oct 4, 2015

I was thinking optima, but since I made the post I did more searching and found more negative threads on Optimas then positive so I'm not sure on them. Plus their about $240 each compared to $160 ish each

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Lugger007 · Oct 4, 2015

NickPic83 said:
Die hard platinum gets my vote

I've had great luck with die hard in the past but I did a search on sears site and the platinum did not come up fitting our trucks. Guess I'll have to go there and ask

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torque beast · Oct 4, 2015

Stangr8cr said:
Always have good luck with Optima batteries. I've run them in every vehicle I've owned be it race or street and never had one fail. Going on 9 years in the expy, 6 on the Mach 1, and just got 2 red tops for the truck instead of waiting for the originals to $hit the bed.

Keith

Same here. They are built to handled the vibration and shock better

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Lugger007 · Oct 4, 2015

torque beast said:
Same here. They are built to handled the vibration and shock better

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If I did buy optima, could I install a red start (800 cca) on the starter battery and yellow top (750 cca deep cycle) on the secondary?

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79jasper · Oct 4, 2015

No. Batteries need to be same size. (CCA)

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Stangr8cr · Oct 5, 2015

I wouldn't mix battery sizes, if you prefer the yellow tops, just get 2 of them. We even run the optima red tops in the car trailer.

Keith

mustube · Oct 5, 2015

When Optima moved production to mexico, quality went to **** and warranty rates went up. The old ones were really good, the new ones I wouldn't waste money on. Die hard platinum are the same as the odyssey batteries, that's what I would go with instead of optimas.

lincolnlocker · Oct 5, 2015

NickPic83 said:
Die hard platinum gets my vote

same here.. p2's 65 series.. id stay away from optimas.. more bad luck than good luck with them in the past few years... 10yrs ago id say yes definitely.. but as of late, no...

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Lugger007 · Oct 5, 2015

lincolnlocker said:
same here.. p2's 65 series.. id stay away from optimas.. more bad luck than good luck with them in the past few years... 10yrs ago id say yes definitely.. but as of late, no...

live life full throttle

I just called sears as couldn't find platinums on line. Sales guy said platinums are discontinued due to high failure rate. Diehard gold or agm would be next option

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JSJ4613 · Oct 5, 2015

Lugger007 said:
I was thinking optima, but since I made the post I did more searching and found more negative threads on Optimas then positive so I'm not sure on them. Plus their about $240 each compared to $160 ish each

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Been there, done that, with the Optimas,such a OVERRATED battery

lincolnlocker · Oct 5, 2015

Lugger007 said:
I just called sears as couldn't find platinums on line. Sales guy said platinums are discontinued due to high failure rate. Diehard gold or agm would be next option

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wtf.. no chit? guess i need to look into the ones on my dually. maybe they are part of the reason i haveva severe voltage drop issue after about a half hour of run time after its up to operating temp.. i know my starter cranks slower.. could be the combination of the two....

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Lugger007 · Oct 5, 2015

I went to sears tonight. Bought two die hard gold batteries. Installed them. And now the wrench light is on on the display. Anyone have this issue before????

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