Careful with those EverStarts. Delco does not make all of them. Exide makes them also. You don't want an Exide. I would stick with a johnson controls battery like Interstate, or auto zones duralast or the Sears Die Hard Gold.

 

Ok, I'll ask. Why not an Exide?

 

from what i've heard, interstate is pretty good and die hard and duralast aren't that good.

 

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http://www.toyota-4runner.org/4th-ge...w-battery.html

 

They are all pretty well equals. It's just a matter of who happens to catch the bad ones in a batch.

 

Honestly, I can say I've never got a bad one, but I have messed a few good ones up.lol

 

another plus is my stereo seems to sound better and truck seems a little smoother

 

Do you remember all the battery issues that Sears had a few years ago? That was caused when some genius buyer decided to drive down the cost of batteries and compete the business. For many years Johnson Controls had the Die Hard business exclusively, but sears looked elsewhere. They chose Delco and Exide to supply their batteries. The Exide batteries were junk and caused more problems that you could ever imagine. That led to the claims that Sears was selling used batteries. That wasn't the case. The problem was that the public had relied on quality batteries for so long that they didn't know that the issue was from the manufacturer of the batteries. The exides would leak sitting on the shelf and had an extremely high failure rate that they were being tested before they were installed. After all the problems Sears dropped Exide and Delco refused to do business with them so they went back to JC and the batteries are good again.

This is not speculation. This is first hand knowledge because I used to work for at Sears HQ in the automotive group.

 

I don't remember that but, I'm sure sure what you say is fact. Didn't Sears DieHard have a lifetime warranty, for as long as you owned the vehicle?

 

I've had batteries leak at the post but it has been a year or 25 ago so I don't remember the brand.