Thread: Good battery reccomendation?

Recently my car has been really slow to turn over as it has been getting colder outside, went to start it this morning in 32F weather and no dice. Anyway, I'm looking for a good battery I have looked into the Optima Red Tops even with the high price tag my dad was explaining its a good idea to get a reliable good battery. I found this one at autozone ->Optima Battery/Battery (34-78) | 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix 6 Cylinders K 3.8L SFI OHV | AutoZone.com. I guess any opinions, experiences, or recommendations would be grateful.

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I have a red top and it has never let me down no matter what I throw at it.

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Get one with 690+ cold cranking amps. Look for a little round sticker on the side, it will show the build date. Some have a letter first: A for January, B for Feburary -others have a number 1 for January. The next number after the slash is the year. Look close as some retailers may have had batteries on the shelf all summer that are being sold now as it gets cold. Trickle charge it overnight at least before you put it in.

Brand is not as important as warranty and CCA. Buy it where you think a possible return would be the easiest.

Originally Posted by Madness

Get one with 690+ cold cranking amps. Look for a little round sticker on the side, it will show the build date. Some have a letter first: A for January, B for Feburary -others have a number 1 for January. The next number after the slash is the year. Look close as some retailers may have had batteries on the shelf all summer that are being sold now as it gets cold. Trickle charge it overnight at least before you put it in.

Brand is not as important as warranty and CCA. Buy it where you think a possible return would be the easiest.

Would trickle charge mean throwing it on a battery charger with low amps? I have some cheap battery charger that I got from autozone thats got like 10,6,2 amp settings or something along with standard,AGM,and some other battery type.

I got one of the Advance gold ones or whatever. Used online codes and got $20 off or so. It's got almost 800 cca. Does just fine.

Originally Posted by addzradd

Also don't foget you can throw in a 75 series battery, most of the time the cca's are the same but the battery is 8-10 lbs lighter in smaller packaging. It works great for cranking it over, probably not as much so if you are running a big sound system though.

All I got is 2 12's on 500w rms and my headlights dim when I crank it. I plan on doing the big 3 soon with 4ga wire.

Everyone has been a big help, I'm looking into an Optima Red top if the money is available or a Duralast Gold because of location for warranty reasons.

Originally Posted by Russosaur

Everyone has been a big help, I'm looking into an Optima Red top if the money is available or a Duralast Gold because of location for warranty reasons.

don't forget about the customer service at whichever vendor you choose

Well guys, I got a Duralast Gold Top something 800CCA (can't remember rest of it) Has a 3 year replacement warranty and an 8 year warranty for credit if it goes bad after the 3 year. When they tested the 6 year old wal mart everstart battery it was bad and was bulging and he said frozen and only put out like 400CCA and was rated at 580CCA. Installed the new battery in my car and holy crap, It fired right up the starter sounded nice a healthy. Took her for a drive to let the computer re-learn and everything is good.

Yep. That's the same one I got. I made it all through last winter and this summer and it's been a champ. Hell it better be or I will surely take it for a return