Duralast Battery – A Safe Bet For Longer Battery Life

A Duralast battery is quite frankly your vehicle’s true friend. Have you ever found your car not starting when you had to rush to office early? There are many who have had this nasty experience and just didn’t know what to do. It’s most likely that the battery had to be replaced. If you had purchased a Duralast battery, you would have had absolutely no problem replacing it even if the battery was over two years old.

Made by Johnson Controls, Duralast batteries are available only from AutoZone and have proved a worthy car component for years now. In fact, it finds itself among the top rated batteries according to Consumer Reports.

Features That Make Duralast A Must-Want Battery

It features extend battery life, and Duralast Gold batteries have been rated among the most dependable batteries ever built.

They are designed to work with regular vehicles, sports utility and imported vehicles.

AutoZone stores are located across the United States and also offer you on-car and off-car parts testing (in case the problem is with some other part other than your car battery). They even have a mobile testing unit to test other components like the alternator and starter. If you can go to an AutoZone store, you get a free battery test.

Their batteries have been optimized for specific geographical locations. It would be really great to get a battery specifically designed to adapt to extreme cold and heat conditions, wouldn’t it?

Tips To Save Money

The warranty on Duralast Gold batteries is three years. AutoZone would willingly replace your battery under warranty any time before the three-year warranty period. No questions asked. You actually don’t have to buy a new one.

When you have decided to buy a battery, check out the dimensions of your original battery. You do not want to be buying an oversized battery and then sending it back.

Cold Cranking Amps (CCA) is a battery rating that defines a battery's ability to start an engine at very low temperatures. The higher the CCA rating, greater is the starting power of the battery.

We already discussed replacement of batteries under the warranty package. There is one other thing. All Duralast batteries have a small decal on the battery container which gives you the month and year the battery was shipped out. For example, B9 would be February 1999 and D0 would be April 2000. This would tell you instantly how old the battery really is without referring to any warranty papers.

Duralast batteries are sold directly to consumers for do-it-yourself installation and through automotive service centers and repair units. In fact, AutoZone helps you select the precise battery you need depending on the year of manufacture, the make, model, and type of engine.  A visit to Autozone.com and a little research might save you cash.

If you prefer do-it-yourself kits, it will surely cost you less. You might have to find a suitable service for disposing your old battery. There are automotive supply stores that would pay cash or offer discounts for your old battery.