Topic: Sears DieHard Platinum

[grumpygy]

Check Sears E-bay store they may have a good deal on it there.

[JohnnyO]

Couple years ago Consumer Reports tested car batteries and Die Hards came out on the bottom of the pile.  Duralast Gold (Auto Zone) or Everstart MAXX (Wal-Mart) were rated much better.  These days I get one or the other of those.  Just sayin'.

[Jeffy]

Couple years ago Consumer Reports tested car batteries and Die Hards came out on the bottom of the pile.  Duralast Gold (Auto Zone) or Everstart MAXX (Wal-Mart) were rated much better.  These days I get one or the other of those.  Just sayin'.

I doubt they tested the Platinum's.  Compared to the regular Die-Hards, they are over twice as expensive.  That's because they aren't AGM's and a different company makes them.  Osyssey makes the Platinum's for SEAR's.  Odyssey is a well known company in the AGM battery business.

[dwtaylorpdx]

Recently bought a AGM from Batteries plus, Replaced a Orbital that was almost 9 years old.
Noticeable improvement in starting rpm.. 

Had it in about 6 months now, so far so good.

Dave

[Jeffy]

Recently bought a AGM from Batteries plus, Replaced a Orbital that was almost 9 years old.
Noticeable improvement in starting rpm.. 

Had it in about 6 months now, so far so good.

Dave

I know when I went from the stock battery to my Optima 800U, the starter would noticeably spin with more gusto.

[Jeffy]

Hey it's on sale again! $172.49!

[Mozman68]

Hey it's on sale again! $172.49!

Damn..it is...but want to wait until I get paid on Thursday.  Looks like the sale goes until the 24th, so I'm covered.

[stan98tj]

I run the Platinum. No problems so far.

[sharpxmen]

so are these better than Optima ones? (price-wise they're more expensive when not on sale, so i would think yes but wouldn't mind hearing why/how)

[stan98tj]

so are these better than Optima ones? (price-wise they're more expensive when not on sale, so i would think yes but wouldn't mind hearing why/how)

From what I understood when I was in the market, Optima has had recent quality issues. They moved their plant overseas and now the quality control is a bit reduced. From the reviews I read,  I chose the platinum.

[Jeffy]

so are these better than Optima ones? (price-wise they're more expensive when not on sale, so i would think yes but wouldn't mind hearing why/how)

The main difference is that these batteries are easy to find and have more CCA.  Not to mention are also Deep Cycle/Starters.

From what I understood when I was in the market, Optima has had recent quality issues. They moved their plant overseas and now the quality control is a bit reduced. From the reviews I read,  I chose the platinum.

They are not made overseas.  The plant moved to Mexico when Johnson Control bought them out in 2000.  Quality went down hill but supposedly they got things fixed about 10 years ago.

[dwtaylorpdx]

Excide has a pretty nice AGM as well and they can be had for about 130 bucks.

Dave