What truck batteries do you use and how long do they last?

Next time I change batteries, I’m planning to get from sams club/Costco, rather then in repair shop who charge me twice more. And if you have room for 4 you should defenetly go for it.

 

if you have the cash and are not a cheap skate. go with trojon truck battery.

 

I use Odyssey AGM, not cheap, but havent had to worry about her turning over since I switched to them a couple of years ago

 

Funny battery story. Back in the 80's, I hauled a load of lead bars from Herculenium, Mo. creepy place, to Globe Union in Milwaukee. They made car batteries for years. When the guy loaded me, he put 4 small bundles up front, then a BIG space, and 3 bundles on the back. I said, "that's it"? He said, "well you got 44K there, you might want to nail those back 3 to the floor". Lead pretty heavy, duh,,so I get to Milwaukee, back in, guy says, be just a minute, so I'm looking around, here's all these empty battery cases, every brand you could think of, even Diehard's. Guy comes back, I said, what's the deal with all these battery cases. He said, pal, get your cheapest price on a battery, inside, they're all the same.

 

Nearly all of the automotive flooded batteries you see on the market are manufactured by either Exide, Johnson Controls or EnerSys.

 

Call me a cheapskate but i only spent 240$ on 4 refurbished batteries 2 years ago. Havent had any problems out of em either.

 

Hi cheapskate( you said) once, I got 3 batteries from a truck junkyard, they were almost brand new, $20 bucks a piece.

 

To my knowledge, if your truck has an APU, you need “dual purpose” batteries. It’s more than just a starting battery. These dual batteries were designed to be recharged many times by an APU.