1st gen battery question

Oh absolutely, not knocking Odyssey batteries, they are quite good, but when I was looking at replacing my dead battery X2 eaked out a win in most categories, also I couldn't find an Odyssey battery dealer close to me, and X2's warranty was better, being able to walk into any batteries plus and walk out with a new battery under warranty was a huge plus. No pun intended...

But yes Odyssey has been a high quality battery for a long time running, but I would still put them just below North Star. YMMV.

 

I have a carquest platinum AGM in my truck for 3yrs now, zero complaints. Supposidly it's a rebadged dekka intimidator. It sits for a few weeks in the cold between starts and cranks right over evrey time, winching it does great as well.

The truck is not a DD so it's usually sitting more days than actually getting driven.

 

Odyssey is North Star!, Enersys owns them; and made Die Hard platinums also. Look on bitog and other reputable sites, Ive owend their batteries for years so compare a pic of a Die Hard Platinum to those of a Northstar exactly the same grey case which is red and black on an Odyssey. Its funny you compared them thats like right Twix vs. left Twix.

 

Right Twix is better though.

 

I disagree left Twix is! lol

 

^ This X 100000.

Quality control has been on a downward spiral for years with Optima (even before they moved production to Mexico). About the only guarantee with Optima is that they make great paper weights.

 

I too did this. Inexpensive, tons of good reviews, and widespread availability when the $hit hits the fan.

 

In 20 years my tacoma has had 3 batteries, last 2 were Optima, I'm sold on them!!

 

Walmart Maxx Start batterys seem to work pretty well for me and im in super cold temps

 

You got lucky then IMO. My family owns an RV dealership with a service shop. We've been authorized dealers of most brands over the years. Have always had the most problems with Optima. The best from what we've seen has been Interstate by a long shot, but as has been said, most batteries are made by a few manufacturers. All I can say with certainty is that I will NEVER shell out my hard earned dollars for an Optima.

 

Damn skippy!

 

Well my battery wont hold a charge anymore. Looking to buy a new battery today, Im kind of dead set on Northstar batteries. Just one question, Does a group 27f fit in the first gen battery tray?

 

I replaced my tired Interstate battery about 4 months ago. Last one lasted... 12 years according to the date on the battery. That's got my business. Only says they are 5-6 year batteries.

 

That's good to hear. I was set on a Northstar AGM for almost $400. I was at Big O tire where I bought new Cooper ATW's last summer getting my tires rotated. They came out and said my battery was getting ready to die. I knew they weren't lying because I have a battery tester my self and knew it was weak. On an impulse buy I just had them install an Interstate Megatron because my luck with Interstate has been good in the past on another vehicle. Besides, I got well over 6 years out of the last Toyota battery and figured, how much worse could the Interstate be? Do I really "need" a Northstar for 3X the price? Maybe next time around. I'll see how the Interstate does.

 

I need a new battery for the 02 taco, but now I'm just confused! lol

 

Costco has 24F Interstate battery for $109.99.

 

3.5 years on a yellow top and ZERO issues. every manufacture sometimes has bad batches but Optimas are still quality batteries. specially when any piece of shit off the rack at autozone/oreylis is now somehow $200 even though it will die as soon as the warranty runs out.

 

Yeah battery prices seem out of line now at a lot of places.