wal mart carrys optima? well i deff know all autozones do. just to let ya know these batteries cost between 110-150

 

when my battery died ( didn't know it at the time) i took it to the dealer and they replace it with an oem one. it has served me well.... 4 years never had to get jumped and also have 2 powerfull amps hooked up for my stereo. i belive it has a 5 year warentee on it

 

my dealer had just a year warranty on the OEM battery. ( and this battery died in 13 months). The duraplex battery that autozne replaced has a 2 year free replacement warranty on it.

David, thanks for the tip on the maintenance of the battery. I had no idea about that.

 

After you changed your battery did you check your charging system ?
if the batt didnt last that long you should do a Parasatic Draw test
to see if nothing is draining your batt over time

 

huh? parastic draw test? How does one go about doing that?

 

First make sure you have any codes for radio or anything els, coz you going to have to disconnect your batt, and you going to need a Digital multimeter to read amps with algator clips

1. Dissconect you Postive Batt cable
2.Connect you red lead to the batt positive pole. and Black to your Positive batt cable .
3. Set you meter to Amp Scale, always use the largest scale if it is not autoranging then bring it down to the smallest scale
4.Put your key ON then OFF make sure you dont start it or have any heavy electrical loads
such as rear defroster on or head lights as this will blow the fuse in your meter
5. Watch your meter it should Climb down to less then 0.03milliamps(this is roughy most cars )
IF it stays higher wait a few min as some electrical modules have a time delay and shut down slowly...
If it stays above .03 then try to see wat is staying on in your car, Glove box light, Trunk light etc
as this can drain your batt over time

Hope this helps

 

Good suggestions Shaunp05.

 

Thank you much Shaunp05. You gave me something to do this weekend. Will post here what I find out.