best battery?
Road Master
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From: Outer Banks, NC
To you guys who are dissing NAPA. Four years ago I replaced my original HD with a NAPA AGM battery. It was made in the same Deka plant as the HD. Same shape and same terminals. Only thing it's lacking is the HD logo. It's still going strong.
Tourer
Joined: Dec 2014
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From: Florida
The O store nearby did not have a battery in stock to fit but they did list one the correct size. In all I wasted 40 miles of driving.
I ended up mcgyvering the broken terminal on my old battery and made a new ground cable from #2welding cable. Engine spins like a top now.
Best battery in the world will not start a bike with undesize, corroded cables.
Seasoned HDF Member
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Batteries only a few manufactures for all of them, East Penn (deka) Excide, I forget the other. And they make them for each other too. This is how I know this, in the transportation industry for 40 years, seen batteries come off the assembly line same ones getting HD,sears, auto zone, and what ever all the same battery. So knowing this I buy the one that meets my power demands and the cheapest made in the USA.
Road Warrior
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From: Louisville, KY
Batteries only a few manufactures for all of them, East Penn (deka) Excide, I forget the other. And they make them for each other too. This is how I know this, in the transportation industry for 40 years, seen batteries come off the assembly line same ones getting HD,sears, auto zone, and what ever all the same battery. So knowing this I buy the one that meets my power demands and the cheapest made in the USA.
Road Captain
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From: Florida
Check out Bohannam Battery for H-D Equivalent DEKA batteries, Shipped free to your door in a day or two. Prices are super low compared to Harley.
Road Warrior
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From: Louisville, KY
Check out Bohannam Battery for H-D Equivalent DEKA batteries, Shipped free to your door in a day or two. Prices are super low compared to Harley.
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From: Along the shoreline in SW FL
Batteries only a few manufactures for all of them, East Penn (deka) Excide, I forget the other. And they make them for each other too. This is how I know this, in the transportation industry for 40 years, seen batteries come off the assembly line same ones getting HD,sears, auto zone, and what ever all the same battery. So knowing this I buy the one that meets my power demands and the cheapest made in the USA.
The best list of who makes who I've found...
http://www.jgdarden.com/batteryfaq/batbrand.htm
The big manufacturers do make them to different specs based on who they are selling to, to get relabeled and resold. Some cheaper labels...like some everstarts sold at wallyworld, are indeed cheaper ones coming off the line than other models which may be better because they're contracted for someone else. It's not just one manfucturer that makes the Everstarts for Wallyworld....they have different models which they contract from different manufacturers. Not all Everstarts are made by Delphi...Wallyworld gets some models from Yuasa, Exide, Johnson, Optima, Enertec,
Last edited by YeOldeStonecat; Dec 31, 2014 at 06:09 AM.
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Also, just because a company like Excide, for example, makes a battery then puts whatever label on it does not mean the batteries are the same.
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