Car battery

[blufeb95]

In general, mass market replacement batteries are commodities, differentiated by price, warranty, and service terms. In that respect, WM is hard to beat, but anecdotal experiences have their limits, or at least need to be clarified -- is a WM battery an EP, Clarios, or one the Korean makes?

It's regional and you have to go to your local store and check usually you can tell based on case design but the Serial Number prefix tells all.

 

[f355spider]

Any data on their H6? I'm seven months into my experiment, early yes, but have no hiccups to report. Left town for three weeks, no precautions taken, and no problem.

In general, mass market replacement batteries are commodities, differentiated by price, warranty, and service terms. In that respect, WM is hard to beat, but anecdotal experiences have their limits, or at least need to be clarified -- is a WM battery an EP, Clarios, or one the Korean makes?

Same also applies to any brand that multi-sources, which is most of them.

Unfortunately the Wieze was not tested in Group 48/H6 size. Top rated was the Odyssey and Optima yellow top H6. Surprising the X2 Power did poorly in H6.

One thing I am noticing is the Clarios AGMs whether sold by Interstate, AC Delco, Walmart or other labels...their rankings are all over the place...from top rated to mediocre. One big problem that confuses the testing is Clarios AGMs come from factories all over the world now. And CR is not listing the country of origin...so could be China, Mexico, Korea, Germany, or USA. Same issue with Walmart AGMs...on the east coast they are East Penn, on the west coast they are AGM. We really don't know what CR is testing.

Whether I am at Costco or Walmart I can see AGMs from multiple countries on the rack...sometimes two different countries in the same size. And it can be different each time I look. Some might be German on one visit, and Mexico and China the next. Lately mostly Korea.