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Title: Which Battery...Westco or Autozone?
Post by: 05vrmsm on February 03, 2007, 09:45:48 PM
I've been looking at replacement batteries (AGM type).  Two reasonably-priced contenders are the Westco and Autozone's Duralast Gold.  Both are priced about the same; the differences are in CCAs and warranties.

Westco:    475 CCA  4 yr warranty (1 yr full replacement/3 yr prorated)
Autozone:  320 CCA 8 yr warranty (3 yr full replacement/5 yr prorated)

What do you think?


Title: Re: Which Battery...Westco or Autozone?
Post by: eshea on February 04, 2007, 09:10:22 PM
I believe the stock battery is 370 CCA so would you really want to go lower?
Westco has long been the go-to replacement for the Miata and I've never had a complaint.  Other can surely chime in with their experiences with other brands, though.


Title: Re: Which Battery...Westco or Autozone?
Post by: SilverMiataRacer on February 04, 2007, 09:34:58 PM
Funny as it used to be that the AutoZone battery was the same as the Westco.  Guess they switched to some other vendor now.


Title: Re: Which Battery...Westco or Autozone?
Post by: 05vrmsm on February 04, 2007, 09:50:17 PM
I had heard that, too, but I was at Autozone yesterday and saw that the battery was marked as 320 CCAs.  I just ordered the Westco so I should have it this week sometime.


Title: Re: Which Battery...Westco or Autozone?
Post by: SilverMiataRacer on February 04, 2007, 09:55:39 PM
That's interesting.  My AutoZone never had the battery in stock.  Was always a S.O.


Title: Re: Which Battery...Westco or Autozone?
Post by: wrathchild on February 21, 2007, 04:44:07 AM
Odessey.
ebay
$74 shipped when I got mine. You can mount it upside down if you want :p


Title: Re: Which Battery...Westco or Autozone?
Post by: frogmiata on June 29, 2007, 07:48:28 PM
rating?  warantee?

Odessey.
ebay
$74 shipped when I got mine. You can mount it upside down if you want :p


Title: Re: Which Battery...Westco or Autozone?
Post by: monkey.magicx on August 29, 2007, 11:59:17 PM
which model did you use wrath?


Title: Re: Which Battery...Westco or Autozone?
Post by: msydnor on August 30, 2007, 12:15:00 AM
I think I bought mine at advacne auto, it was pretty cheap and It's been going strong for over a year