Where to get a Deka battery

15 years ago

OK,

So I have learned from Y'all that

1) I should load test new batteries immediately

and

2) Deka is highly recommended.

I wish I had known about step one earlier this year, but c'est la vie! Sad when the consumer must assume products are defective.

I am on the east coast (northern VA). Where can I get Deka or a private label battery made by their parent company?

I know one option is to drive 50 miles to the Deka dealer in Baltimore, but that is too far for me for various reasons.

thanks

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User
15 years ago
East of the Mississippi DEKA (East Penn) OEMs for Batteries Plus, Car Quest, and NAPA among others.

Here are DEKA batteries under the HD Gold Car Quest name brand... http://www.carquest.com/batteries/pdf/CQ_LG.pdf so you can see what a DEKA L&G battery looks like.

One giveaway is that DEKA is one of the few battery manufacturers that offer flat top maintenance free L&G batteries. Most other companies make their batteries with removable caps that stick up from the battery top. Some Toro Wheelhorses have battery hold downs that don't work right with raised cap batteries.

Or... you can go to the DEKA web site and use the search WHERE TO BUY function... http://www.dekabatteries.com/default.aspx?pageid=843
wheelhorse_of_course
Original Author
15 years ago
justa

thanks dude. I did note the flat tops when I looked at the deka site. So that is a good way to tell?

I did notice one of the two pictures at pep boys web site showed that design, but of course the web site is national and therefore not very definitive.

I'll check there and NAPA.

And yes, it will get load tested (or charged and load tested, as needed) before I leave the store.

Your experiences combined with Mownie's experiences have sold me on Deka.

Happy New Year

Rolf
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User
15 years ago
I've found that pictures on a web site rarely show what's on the shelf at the store... any store.

Don't ever ask the store who makes their batteries cause they rarely know but they'll tell you something so they don't look dumb.
tomplum
15 years ago
Went to the auto prts store today to grab a battery. I've never seen Deka shelved where I live and today the whole works had been changed over to Deka. The common L&G batteries were less $ than the others I was getting. All this Deka hoopla must be spreading the seed!
User
15 years ago
DEKA has great market share whether under theior own brand or as an OEM.

The problem getting DEKA west of the Mississippi is that shipping costs on batteries is HIGH so in the west retailers opt for Johnson Controls batteries that are made in Mexico cause the shipping is a lot less.
baymee
15 years ago
I guess I'm lucky to live only a 25 minute beautiful drive through farmland to DEKA so I can take advantage of the cheap prices of a "second", but alas, I get them at NAPA which is only 5 minutes away.
tomplum
15 years ago
Something must have recently changed in Deka distribution, as the ones by me (left coast) show made in USA and PA. Hopefully that's good news as they will be the ones I install this year.