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[ExplOregon]

@PaulT - Unfortunately Mike's Auto has closed. I grew up right down the street from the shop. Best customer service around! Hopefully he's just moving to a new location. They tore down that whole shopping center and are putting in new shops. Bummer cause I could have used his help with the Noco charger as well. 

 

In the end, I went with the Duralast Platinum AGM. We'll see how it goes. For the record, when I went into Autozone, they did have the adaptors for the YellowTops even though when I called them earlier in the week they said that they didn't. Hopefully, the Platinums are somewhere in the middle btw OEM and YTs. We'll see. 

 

Thanks again everyone!

[ntsqd]

FWIW I bought the spacer/adapter that most Optima's need off Amazon when I put a blue top in our 4rnnr.

 

This battery spent the first 3 years of it's life in a large battery bank used for testing contactors. When I put it into the truck my SB-300 battery tester said it had 930 CCA, well above it's rated 750 CCA.

[craig333]

Now that I've started pricing batteries I'm a little surprised to see starting batteries priced as high as deep cycle batteries. I don't recall it being that way in the past. 

 

I was going to say I remember when your local auto parts store had $35 batteries sitting on the shelf but then I realized I'd have to move that to the geezer thread