Anyone had personal experience with either AutoZone's Duralast (regular or gold) battery or Advance Auto's Autocraft (silver or titanium)? I read they're both made by Johnson Controls which makes Toyota's Truestart battery available at the dealer., but longer replacement warranties!

My stock battery is a Panasonic and the test shows it at about 80-90 cranking amps low (had it tested) from where it should be, so I'm looking for a new battery before the cold weather hits. I know I've heard about Optima, just don't care to spend close to $200 when I can keep the car running fine for $80-90

 

I had a regular duralast in my old car, ran 2 amps of it for 2 years with no problems. I would even listen to my system with the car off during my breaks and never had a problem with the battery.

 

Thanks for the info, good to know, been hearing good things about the Duralast, didn't think Autozone was that good, but Johnson Controls makes it, so do they for Toyota, so same product.

Anyone else have an opinion?

 

Have you found out how much the OEM battery is? I'm still on my OEM one after 4 yrs.

 

toyota's replacement battery is called "Truestart" for the tC it's the 575 amp version. Prices vary from $90 to $105 at different dealerships, and that didn't even include dropping it in. No problem I'd do it myself. The toyota had the same replacement warranty as the regular duralast battery 2yrs free/pro-rated after that up to 84months.

I found out that the factory Panasonic we have is 580cca (cold cranking amps) where the replacement is 5 less. hmm.. The regular duralast is 600cca for $75. I'm out of warranty (figures) so the battery I have must have just been bad.

Just trying to get more opinions on the Duralast battery, so anyone else?

 

DURALAST!

I will never buy a Duralast battery simply because that commercial is ____ing annoying.