Cranking Batteries - But which one?

Thanks, I see what I can find. If I just put Cat in to the seacrh engine I get back 1298768759875975 possibles.

Yeah the Cat batteries are pretty good and very reliable but maybe alittle more expensive but worth a look.... Gough & Gilmour would be your best bet in NSW

batterys in big diesals wont last anywhere near as long as in your commodore because a diesal runs about 2 1/2 times the compression. I have easily got 4-5 years out of batterys in petrols but in a 4by they are on borrowed time after2 years

That's what I did..

Powercrank's warranty backup is a disgrace. My son had a warranty refused despite the fact that the date markings showed it was within the warranty period because he didn't have receipt. He bought the car with the battery in it so how the hell could he have a receipt.

Great way to treat an 18 year old kid.

Jim.

LOL, Jim I was just typing you a reply in another post and this follow up came through! :-)

Was it powercrank themselves or a retailer?

I don't know what they are like to deal with for warranty as the batteries are not that old and are still performing ok. In fact I don't even know how long the warranty is.... Might only be 12 months. They were a good option to get me an effective dual battery setup for under $500 and I give them a pretty rough time.
It's a shame that so many companies are so bad when it comes to warranties... I guess there's four main factors I can think of:
1. The companies are potentially greedy.
2. Consumers are always finding more ingenious ways to rip off retailers and manufactuers with flase claims and are always finding new ways to be arrogant and rude about when airing their complaints.
3. Profit margins are no where near where they used to be and competion is fearce and mainly based on price price price.
4. Staff at both the retail and wholesale side of these businesses are either lazy or sick of the high returns of an ever growing cheap market of chinese made products.

I've been on both sides of the fence as a retail store manger, a distributor and a customer. I can tell you one thing, it sucks being any of them.

Jeff,

We spoke to the local shop and head office. The bloke at the shop was only following "policy".

Those at head office were simply arrogant and rude. I've taken my business elsewhere.

Cheers,

Jim.

Yep I have Yuasa 700 N70ZZL as the aux. It is 6 years old and still going strong. Have a new Century 4wd 700 N70ZZL as cranking.

Bradley, where would one get one of these... SYD area?

I'd be interested to talk to a Syd distributor too.