hanz63 wrote:Batteries Plus bats are, or at least were made by Deka. I had a Deka distributor for a while, they dropped them. Good stuff, but I couldn't believe how bad Batteries plus didn't want to sell me batteries though. I just gave up and went back to Exide SM batteries. Interstate was good, but then I somehow went back to the big E once again.
Unless Deka has improved their quality a lot I would not be buying any of them here. Back in 2009/10 my brother was buying them from a local auto parts house. They were both expensive and had a short battery life. I replaced nearly every one he sold with a year; many were less six months old. I still see Deka batteries coming in the shop that are less than year old that are failing.
This why I started buying batteries from Batteries Plus Bulbs. Currently and for the last five years the batteries are labeled as Duracell batteries (manufactured by East Penn Manufacturing). They are making two or more years before failures. At one time since 2009 BPB was selling Extreme batteries in U1 and still sell the Extreme AGM batteries for ATVs. Now of course like many companies these batteries may be have different labels stuck on them.
So far every one of the batteries that I have from BPB has exceed the label ratings according to my tester and seems to be lasting at least a couple years or better.
Of course everyone has different experiences with products like a have with JB Weld products. I got customers here that swear by the products but I apparently have the worst luck with them. Every one of the JB products has failed when I tried them.
Any way my biggest a problem is the those Tramlaw batteries because they are so cheap when compared to other batteries and many consumers will buy the cheapest thing they can find without regard to the product useful lifetime.
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