looking at getting new batteries
Hotshot
Joined: Jun 2007
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From: Austin, TX
got me some optima red tops and LOVE THEM!!!!!! 1000cca if i remember correctly. can leave the stereo and headlights running most of the night while we pull an engine out of my F150 and then go fire the truck up perfectly fine and i have an amp and subs in the truck that used to drain my interstates FAST. and i like interstate batteries, but this amp didn't like interstates or NEVERSTARTS!!! LoL.
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Joined: Nov 2009
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From: Broken Arrow , OK
I wouldnt buy interstate I have never had good luck with them . The Exides were the best batteries that I have owned . I havent heard a lot of positive feedback on the optimas . What I keep seeing is that they dont last as long as they should . Seems like they dont last any longer than just a run of the mill battery .
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Lead Driver
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From: Belair md
i love my exide's. i have a respectable stero system in the truck and run mine alot with the truck off as you do. i've yet to have a problem with it starting and since changing to these monsters the truck cranks over the same speed in 10 degree weather as it does in teh summertime. the standard batteries i ran before cranked considerably slower in the winter and they were motorcraft 1000 cca's
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Hotshot
Joined: Jun 2007
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From: Austin, TX
i love my exide's. i have a respectable stero system in the truck and run mine alot with the truck off as you do. i've yet to have a problem with it starting and since changing to these monsters the truck cranks over the same speed in 10 degree weather as it does in teh summertime. the standard batteries i ran before cranked considerably slower in the winter and they were motorcraft 1000 cca's
What did you have to mod on the trays to make those exides fit? i will never get anything but optimas from now on, but just wondering.
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From: emporium
were did you find the red tops in 1000cca! those yellows were the best i could find. im running two amps plus i have a winch im running all the time. it has a 575 cca on one side and a 800cca on the other and i think thats what killed them. they were in it when i bought them and never paid attention to them. i was shooting the breeze with the guy down at napa that wanted to check out hte new bank intercooler and he happened to notice it. glad i didnt replace the glow pllug contol monitor! (what i was there for)
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From: Belair md
well the exide 31 series are 5 or 6 inches longer then the standard battery and i think 2 or 3 inches taller. i would have to measure to be sure again, but they just physicly dont fit without cutting up the old tray.