Recommend a good battery

[WackyDan]

A battery is a battery, they're all the same. I've never had one fail within 5 years and I've never had one last more than 10. Brand makes no difference whatsoever.

I mostly agree here. I have a chevy that eats batteries every three years like clockwork. Shit poor placement in a tight engine bay. I think the damn things just get cooked in there. Doesn't matter the brand or the money I spend on the battery.

So yeah, a car battery is a car battery.

 

[eng2d2]

to have a push button start, you probably have a 'smart key'. Smart Keys work by a variety of sensors throughout the car that lets the car know that the key is in the car and in which part of the car like the trunk. This takes a lot of power to do which is why I mention it.

Push button start is not new technology except for the fancy button however the smart key is fairly new. The smart key with push button drawing current, well I don't know.

 

[Zivic]

I mostly agree here. I have a chevy that eats batteries every three years like clockwork. Shit poor placement in a tight engine bay. I think the damn things just get cooked in there. Doesn't matter the brand or the money I spend on the battery.

So yeah, a car battery is a car battery.

Good batteries? I find oem nissan batteries and duralast (red and gold) batteries have lasted me the longest in my vehicles.

I have an 09 odyssey that ate up two oem honda batteries already. the second one gave out in just under 3 yrs. this past year I put in a napa legend (the 3rd for the vehicle)

in contrast, I have had oem nissan batteries last 7+ yrs, despite being stored winters without a charger or even being disconnected.

I have used duralast batteries in a few other abusive applications, I have a red going on at least 7 yrs now.

 

[gorb]

The oem battery in my civic only lasted 3 years and 2 months. The oem continental tires only lasted about 26k miles as well -_-

 

[tortillasoup]

Push button start is not new technology except for the fancy button however the smart key is fairly new. The smart key with push button drawing current, well I don't know.

When I speak of push button, it's specific to the kind that allows a user to keep the key in their pocket and start the car with a button. The '04-'09 Prius had a push button start but it allowed you to disable the smart-key system and put the key into the slot. That system was better than the current system which doesn't allow you to disable the smart-key system. I hate the smart-key system, it's a very strong parasitic draw on the battery.