Battery recommendations?

[Mooseknuckle]

Great choice that is what I got the Die Hard Platinum for installed. Well worth it and the warranty that comes with it.

[Zero]

are the die hard batteries deep cycle? or will I have to look at odessy, or optima???

[The Roadie]

Deep cycle isn't the attribute to look for, although some batteries are good for starting AND deep cycle. But they're a compromise. The Die Hard name is applied to many Sears batteries, but (IIRC) only the Platinum uses the AGM (absorbed glass mat) technology to make it unspillable. Unspillable is a nice feature to have, and that technology (flat plate + AGM) is shared by the Odyssey high end batteries.

What the Optimas and Exide ORBITAL have is spiral-wound AGM plates, which wastes a bit of the battery volume, giving you fewer amp-hours capacity, BUT the huge advantage (to me at least) is the vibration resistance of the spiral wound ones. I had a friend in an old Suburban have his flat plate battery short out internally (!) on a Death Valley washboard. Almost lost the car in the ensuing battery meltdown. So I'm not changing from my choice of spiral-wound, although the recent reliability horrors of Optimas is going to make me lean toward an Orbital when I need a new one in the next 6-12 months. My current Optima was from the previous factory, and has been essentially worry free for 60K hard-bashing miles.

[Nakashige]

Hate to bring this back but is the recommendation still the die hard platinum p4?

[fishsticks]

I run one...

Didn't we just have one of these topics come up last week?

[Nakashige]

I didn't see it on a quick search. When to run to get fast food and the battery was dead when I went to leave again.

[Trail X]

I think it's quickly becoming the off-roading standard.