Best replacement battery?
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Laughing Gas
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From: New Braunfels, Texas
Best replacement battery?
My truck needed a jump to get going this morning. A few cells on the drivers side battery were low, but I'm at almost 70K miles and figure it's time for new ones anyways. I think last time I bought some for my '06, the recommended ones were Interstate?
Post Fiend
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From: Greenwood, SC
My opinion: motorcraft ones are the best value. Great performance and decent price. I think the replacements are 800cca ones and the factory ones we get used to from new are 750?
Last time I bought a set I got them at Oreilly. I don't remember who had the best price, I was traveling and needed themso I didn't shop around.
Last time I bought a set I got them at Oreilly. I don't remember who had the best price, I was traveling and needed themso I didn't shop around.
Fleet Owner
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From: Wisconsin
I vote for Odyssey batteries.
ODYSSEY Batteries - 65-PC1750T-A
Prolly not the best value down in the South, but up here, they are worth it.
ODYSSEY Batteries - 65-PC1750T-A
Prolly not the best value down in the South, but up here, they are worth it.
Cargo Master
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From: TEXAS
I have had good luck with batteries purchased at Costco and Wal-Mart in the past. Next time I need to replace the batteries in my truck I will most likely let the dealership do them. They are are priced in line with others and offer a decent warranty.
If you don't like their price call around and price shop then let the dealership price match.
If you don't like their price call around and price shop then let the dealership price match.
Logistics Pro
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I vote for Odyssey batteries.
ODYSSEY Batteries - 65-PC1750T-A
Prolly not the best value down in the South, but up here, they are worth it.
ODYSSEY Batteries - 65-PC1750T-A
Prolly not the best value down in the South, but up here, they are worth it.
Hotshot
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From: Middle Tn.
This is a lot like an oil thread. Get the best warranteed battery available from a store that is most likely to be in the area when the battery goes out and is open 7 days a week. The best battery in the world does no good when it dies and it's a Sunday or holiday and your store is closed or 50 miles away.
Fleet Owner
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From: Wisconsin
This is a lot like an oil thread. Get the best warranteed battery available from a store that is most likely to be in the area when the battery goes out and is open 7 days a week. The best battery in the world does no good when it dies and it's a Sunday or holiday and your store is closed or 50 miles away.
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Logistics Pro
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This is a lot like an oil thread. Get the best warranteed battery available from a store that is most likely to be in the area when the battery goes out and is open 7 days a week. The best battery in the world does no good when it dies and it's a Sunday or holiday and your store is closed or 50 miles away.
More than once I have come upon some guy sitting on the trail a 1000 miles from nowhere waiting on his BFF to show with a FEDX'd part. I have met guys out on the trail they had been there for over a week, one guy over 2 weeks...he was driving a MOOG from Germany.
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Post Fiend
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From: Greenwood, SC
This is a lot like an oil thread. Get the best warranteed battery available from a store that is most likely to be in the area when the battery goes out and is open 7 days a week. The best battery in the world does no good when it dies and it's a Sunday or holiday and your store is closed or 50 miles away.
Lead Driver
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I purchased two DieHard Platinum group size 65 batteries late in 2013. Motorcrafts were done around 43 months and had leaked for two years. Started better than the day I picked up the truck. Paid $395 with tax. Haven't looked at my paperwork in a year but I'm fairly certain it was 4 year full replacement and pro-rated replacement after that for several years.
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Laughing Gas
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From: New Braunfels, Texas
This is a lot like an oil thread. Get the best warranteed battery available from a store that is most likely to be in the area when the battery goes out and is open 7 days a week. The best battery in the world does no good when it dies and it's a Sunday or holiday and your store is closed or 50 miles away.
As an aside, anyone else have to replace theirs yet as well?
Postmaster
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From: Hattiesburg, Ms.
Just about all batteries are made by Johnson Controls these days anyway, for instance, you go purchase a "name brand" battery at AutoZone a shell out the extra for the name, when the AutoZone brand battery is made by the same folks, Johnson Controls, as someone else mentioned, get one that meets or exceeds the CCA for your application and that has the best warranty and you'll be good to go.
I will say that my company truck(s) have always ran OEM (motorcraft) batteries without any issues.
I will say that my company truck(s) have always ran OEM (motorcraft) batteries without any issues.
Lead Driver
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On my 2011 I had to replace the batteries 3.5 years after I bought the truck. I bought them from the dealer because I was on the road and if they failed again I could go to any Ford dealer to get them replaced. I bought the lifetime ones too. (and then I get here I end up trading in the truck for the one in m sig...) They actually knocked some $$ off so it was cheaper than the local auto parts store anyways... I paid under $300 for both batteries. Only one was done, but figured it was worth it since from there on out I was going to be driving through rural Canada...
BTW, Roy, where is BumChuck, Montana? I know you live in Great Falls... I don't remember that town when I drove thru and picked you up.
BTW, Roy, where is BumChuck, Montana? I know you live in Great Falls... I don't remember that town when I drove thru and picked you up.
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I don't think you'll find a better quality battery than the Odyssey that someone linked above. They make batteries for the military. (Aircraft carriers and Fighter jets). However, I tend to buy the cheapest battery that I can find that meets CCA specs that I need. I don't by "gold" or "Platinum" anything. Walmart is my go to place of late. All of my batteries last well beyond the warranty period. I think sometimes you get good batteries and sometimes you get bad ones. I also think the price you pay has little to do with it. I have 8 cars, two motorcycles, and have had the opportunity to experiment quite a bit on this.
Bill
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