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Cargo Master
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Money was definitely an issue for me and unless you go for the ultra top of the line the quality is questionable at best in all the rest so I went for best warranty. Motorcraft BXT65-850 36 month free replacement and 36-100 month prorated.
Yeah those things are awesome. Heard lots of good things about Odyssey batteries as well.
Yeah those things are awesome. Heard lots of good things about Odyssey batteries as well.
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From: Medford Oregon
XP - Xtreme Power @ 900 CCA each.
Have 5 plus years on them and still going strong.
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Mine are Schwab's too, but only 60mos. they will be 6yrs old in Oct.
They are only 675amps cold and 844 @ 32F, I have had no trouble with them so far, but I am saving my $ for new ones because I have found my battery's don't usually last much past the months the are warranted for. If that's the case there running on borrowed time now. I will probably replace them this fall because I just hate it when my battery s fail, it's usually at the worst time possible.
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So ... they can be a little different depending on the options.
Also, batteries of a given level tend to be close enough to not matter.
Example: most of the chain autoparts stores will have near enough the same batteries if they have the same warranty.
The Manufacturer batteries (BMW, Motorcraft, Honda, etc) tend to have the higher end options (heaver plating, thicker case, heavier straps, composite isolators, etc).
Richard
EDT: BTW, I think the main manufacturers are Interstate, Exide, Panasonic, and there is one in Taiwan... Bosch used to make their own but I think they now subcontract to one of the others. Note that this is all from memory.
