Originally Posted By: EricF
Stay away from the duralast Gold, they are good for a little over a year before you have warrant it.
You are better off with the Duralast Silver if you want to go with AZ.
the Sears Diehard's are pricey, but I believe interstate makes them and you can't really go wrong with that, and they also have a nationwide warranty.
My new favorite battery is Deka out of Pennsyvania..
Interstate is not a battery manufacturer. They are a reseller of Johnson Controls Inc batteries. The same goes for Duralast and Sears Diehard. Sears Diehard has been exclusively JCI since 1999. Before then they purchased from GM, Exide, and JCI.
http://www.autobatteries.com/brands/diehard.asp
http://www.autobatteries.com/brands/Duralast.asp
http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2001/05/10/020617.html
Quote:
MILWAUKEE, May 10 Interstate Battery System of America,
Inc. has honored Johnson Controls, Inc. , a leading global supplier
of automotive and commercial batteries, with its 2000 service excellence award
for outstanding performance of on-time order fill.
Johnson Controls supplies batteries to Interstate Batteries'
328 distributors across the United States and Canada. The company has earned
this award nine of the ten years the award has been in existence.