Looking for a new battery for my car, i was pretty much set on an optima red or yellow top. I hear from others that costco now is selling them so i head over there to check them out. Unfortunatly there are none that is in the 51 group, however i see a kirikland one that does. 100 month warrenty, 36 month replacement, and cost 35bucks. Already contemplating on a averge sound system i wasnt sure if i should go this route. What do u guys suggest...optima or kirkland.

 

I managed to squeeze in a blue one.
Plenty of CCA It's really good for cranking the parasite supercharger system and for those deep base requirement .

 

I also fit a full sized red top but i was unable to get a good battery tie down. So i just use a yellow top group 51 and battery tender.

 

G thanks

 

anyone ever used a kirkland battery?

 

if it's got a good warrenty then I wouldn't worry about it. It should be fine for that amount of time...and if it's not, then take it back...there shouldn't be anything wrong with their batteries, personally I probably wouldn't buy one, cause I'm all about lightweight...but whatever.

 

i feel sometimes you get what u pay for...maybe the optima is almost 3times the price of kirkland for a reason maybe not.

 

you cant really compare a kirkland battery to an optimum. not that the kirkland is bad, but the optimum costs 3x as much because its a dry cell battery, no leaking. if youre running a stock setup, I would just go for the smallest/lightest battery you could find....the kirland will get you around just fine.

 

Is it really a dry cell? The Optima are heavy as all hell and I thought they just did a special "coil thing" with the electrodes and electrolyte solution.

The dry cell batteries are supposed to be really light.

 

Oh yeah. The stock battery on the Camry died last April and I replaced it with a Kirkland. The battery works quite well and was quite reasonably priced.