In the market for a new battery. 08 F150 4x4 113,000 miles. Feel free to post what battery you are running, success you have had with certain brands and also what brands that you would not recommend. Also, in the Navy down by the gulf coast so I would not really need a battery for the cold any suggestions?

 

I'm running a Duralast Gold, but would I recommend it? Nope, not at today's prices and warranty change. I'd recommend a DieHard Platinum. However, if you want to save money and are a member, I'd recommend a Kirkland from Costco.

 

I'm running a replacement Motorcraft in my truck just because I'm trying to preserve a stock appearing engine compartment. My F-150 is not a daily driver, and is intended to be more of a long-term collector piece, thus the desire for the stock appearance.

 

My choice.. Sears Diehard Platinum (Odyssey) battery.

 

I recently bought a Sam's Club AGM, a Duracell I believe as my trucks replacement battery. It replaced a Duralast Gold that lasted 5 1/2 years.

 

Kirkland group 65 ..... put in in 2012. Consummer Reports gave it the highest rating in a big battery issue. Been great.

 

I THINK, but I could be wrong, that Costco's batteries are now sporting the Interstate brand.

However, my battery is a Costco battery and I don't think you can go wrong with their batteries. I base my recommendation on cost per years of usable service.

- Jack

 

I've bought the heavy duty Interstate batteries at Sams Club for all my vehicles for the past 15 years or so. They have worked well for me.

 

Might be ... haven't looked at their batteries lately ... back in 2012 it was just after C-R's battery test issue and Kirkland was then Costco's "house brand". In the group 65 cat, the Kirkland beat even the Die Hard .... in that battery of tests.

They also changed their apple pies. They used to have a solid dough top and some of the best apples filling them without being too sweet, just good flavor ...... but now they have the strips of dough laced and the filling isn't near as good, way too sweet and not near "appley" enough so that it is much easier to walk past that rack now without picking one up .....

Shortly after buying that Kirkland 65 for my '07 I started working part time at Advance (mostly delivery and stocking and I install batteries and wipers a lot, no sales goles for me) and I have bought three Golds (for a T-bird and the Merc and wife's Scoobie).

My 1977 F-150 4x4 is STILL starting / running on that 2003 NAPA Legend 75 that was installed in late Spring 2003 as a warranty replacement for the Legend 75 I had bought just 15 months earlier (have the receipts in dash for both). One lasted 15 months .... while it's replacement is now 12 years old and still going .... both on same charging system (60A OE alternator and mid '80s electronic regulator).

So even all batteries of same make and vintage are not always so "equal".

 

That might be the longest I have ever heard of a battery lasting.......

 

Yeah .... me too. My buddies at work couldn't believe it when I started there in 2012, then I showed them the battery. I use our tester and check it, but it always tests "good battery". Truck itself has a little over 105K miles, still oem starter too. Maybe it's the "non high compression option" 351M that it starts that is part to blame?

I bought the truck in 1986 with 35K on it and drove it pretty regular up into late 90s, then used her less and less. From 2000 up until 2012, there were some years I only put a few hundred miles on it, but there is no memory devices in her and when winter hit, I would usually take a battery maintainer / charger and make sure the battery stayed up in case I needed the truck .... but she did set for a month or two more than once with no starting or charging. In 2010 I had retired from state and in 2012 I started at Advance and I had the truck for sale but people want you to give it away. So .... I started driving her some more, fixing her up, upgrading things, and now I enjoy her and she still hauls a ton of wood pellets with ease.

I have a couple of still good group 65s in the basement .... one is a 4 year old Legend 75 that a customer left in the bed of that PU at work one day cause it still checked good but he wanted a new one (I paid him his core) .... and one is the OEM Motorcraft 65 out of our '01 Mercury GM that never went bad, I just replaced it before a 3 week / 7955 mile trip across the USA in 2006 and since it was still good (I built a small wooden cart and it's my "emergency / portable power battery" and it's still good .... and while it's "older", it's spent 98+% of time since 2006 in a warm basement in a box with a fresh charge every couple months save for a few short spells in use in a police car when I had one go bad and was waiting for a new one to get to me through supply).

Thinking maybe I should mount one of them under the hood on the other side and charge it occasionally as a "on board jumper" until the old veteran gives up?

Or maybe just carry my portable jump box?

 

I've been running EverStart batteries in my boat/vehicles for a long time. Never had an issue, and they normally go 6-7yrs between replacements. I can't justify paying 200% more for an AGM battery in order to get another 1-2 years out of it, personally. It just doesn't make financial sense.

 

I upgraded from the old stock 540 CC Motorcraft to a 750 CC Motorcraft about two years ago and I'm very satisfied

 

I'm running an 850 cca motorcraft. Got it at a ford dealer last year for $117.00 after core. Starts strong in the winter. I stuck with motorcraft because my oe battery was 6 years old and still starting strong when I replaced it.

 

OEM replacement from Costco (Kirkland)