my battery is orignal. tested bad in 2010 but never got slow or dead starts. fall 2012 starting to get slow starts. but never died. in storage since nov. on a battery maintainer. batter is 7yrs old. i will be replacing it when it comes out if storage and passes emission. going to stick with oem.

 

Update on my Duralast gold: I had charged it up and put it on the tender for the last 3 weeks. Went to move the car this weekend and it wouldn't start. Just clicking, not enough juice. Put it on the charger again and came back 3-4 hours later. Same problem. Last year I had replaced the battery completely so I was a little surprised it wasn't holding a charge. Brought it back to Autozone and they just swapped it out, full warranty replacement so at least that's good... works like a champ now. I'm thinking I just got a defective battery because my previous one last much longer.

 

Got a new OEM unit today for my car, when it was warm after getting gas and stopping for a few errands it took another crank or two to turnover. But when it's cold it's fine.

I figured it's only going to get worse as the temps increase, dealer only got me for $93 as I still have a discount on my account from when I bought tons of stuff there for my race car lol I'll replace it tomorrow and report if what's in it is the stock unit or not

 

i just replace my battery with another OEM battery. old one at 199cca still starts the engine but very slow lol. 7yrs time for a new one. got OEM battery for $109.00 after core. wholesale price.

 

I'm rather disappointed that my relatively new battery didn't have enough juice to crank it over last weekend.
The first OEM battery lasted 8 years. This one isn't getting it done after 2 or 3.

it concerns me that maybe I have slow drain somewhere in the car.