New Battery advice

[Piston_slap]

Cold as a witch's ti!!y here in Va (12 degrees) and I'm having Wal*mart drop one of their EverStart Maxx Group 65N batteries in my 94 Econoline. Currently in a price rollback to $84! That's half of AA or AZ's price. With price, warranty and store network it's hard to go wrong on this deal.

 

[Delta]

All these battery threads jinxed me! Tried to start the Jeep earlier and nothing. Its progressively gotten worse and had to be jumped before, today was the last straw. The old Autocraft silver was about 3 years old, which is probably about right. Although I've never really had issues with Autocraft batteries from Advance before so I went with a Autocraft Gold this time. It's the nearest auto parts store to me and I wasn't about to be running all about with this cold. Doofus at the counter did try and sell me one dated November; I politely told him to get me a fresh one.

S10 has a Duralast gold same age (2/15) and it's still kicking even starting on those 0°F days.

 

[CharlieBauer]

Originally Posted By: Richie
AAA will check the charging system and replace the battery at your location. I think they use JCI batteries.


I had an AAA battery installed at home and it ended up lasting 6.5 years. With zero maintenance.

In the same vehicle, the factory battery failed at 2.5 years and a diehard gold (JCI) failed at 3.5 years.

Got lucky with diehard gold. The Sears person handling my warranty exchange mixed up months and days and thought it had failed just before 3 years were up. Got a replacement for no cost and that one has been running for 1.5 years now.

 

[mclasser]

As long as there is nothing in the way of the battery, an auto parts store should do a free install. AAP refused on my Pilot because of the air intake snorkel running over the battery.

In the end, I went over to Batteries Plus, picked up an East Penn Duracell and swapped it out in the parking lot.

 

[Piston_slap]

Get me the AAP store number. I have an old battery in the backyard that I will scratch the store manager's name on it and launch it through their front window next week!

Originally Posted By: mclasser
As long as there is nothing in the way of the battery, an auto parts store should do a free install. AAP refused on my Pilot because of the air intake snorkel running over the battery.

In the end, I went over to Batteries Plus, picked up an East Penn Duracell and swapped it out in the parking lot.