Battery alchemy?
The difference between a cheap battery and a expensive battery is the use of recycled lead vs virgin lead, Hopefully. Recycled lead has a shorter life span in a battery.
There's is truth in this, and falsehood. When you go to any chain store, the difference in the GOOD battery versus the BAD battery by warranty, is the sticker. That's it. They're all black and the sticker governs the warranty and price. The guts are the same.
If the cca changes, then the battery changes.
That said, STOP going to Wal-Mart, Advance, Oreilly, etc.
If you want a battery go to the battery place: Interstate. They can't afford a **** reputation, and the cost difference is minimal.
If you get the industrial/heavy duty green top, you'll probably see better results. My local Kansas City, Kansas Interstate store sells refurbs that have been returned or otherwise needed some attention. Thirty or ninety day warranty, and in my beater cars they last a couple years, easy, but they're like fifty or sixty bucks.
The interstate MEGATRON in my grandpa's Cummins Ram was old in '04 when he died, and the truck sat till the flood in '13. Completely submerged for three days, and that battery had enough *** to start that truck on the first turn after I drained the water out.
My last o'really battery died on THE day it went out of warranty. I'm an Interstate man, now.
