Toyota getting cheap on batteries?

I still have my original battery in my 05,With very cold winters(Down to 40 below a few years ago)its still going great.

 

Wow , 2 posts in 4 years

 

Yea ,I forgot I even had a account here.Oh well

 

haha

 

Im up to 4 now ,look at me go!

 

stop spamming...

 

Nothing wrong with a smaller and lighter-weight battery!

 

I still have my oem on my 06 with 90000

 

Yeah down here it gets so hot that even the Optima's don't last like they should. When mine went out last time I took it back where I bought it and the owner told me they had quit selling them. He said a lot of them were coming back in cause of the heat down here. He also said Optima was a pain in the ass to deal with getting his money back for the warranty. He deeply discounted one of their batteries for me and it lasted till I traded the truck in. I may go with an oddysey next time. I may try Optima again if I could get a great deal on one.

 

My original battery was found to be failing at 15k and was replaced by the dealer.

 

OEM Truestart 27F still going strong.

 

New Red top optima was charged, than sat for two months. Put in truck thinking everything was golden, looking good under the hood. Nothing, took it to be recharged....told the battery would not take a charge. Optimas are made in Mexico. If you want to be sure, go to jk forum...search optima batteries. Quite the eye opener. Odyssey from sears seems to be the hot set up.

 

Battery in my 09 went dead 18 months after I bought the truck new. Dealer replaced it under warranty. Heat appears to be the biggest problem where I am. Batteries in new cars I've had the past 10 years usually only get to about 36 months, although the last two replacements were at 18 months for my Tacoma, and 24 months for a Jetta TDI (both warranty replaced).

 

My 06 battery went out this past January (2012). Pretty amazing!

 

That is amazing! Luck of the draw on that one.

 

http://www.optimatrays.com/

 

I have a 09 and to my surprised when I took my truck in for an oil change toyota changed it for free cause they said it was a little low.