ODYSSEYBattery, Performance Series, AGM

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The best car battery, by FAR. Put one in my 2013 Ford E-450 in 2016, still going strong! Put one in our 2012 Expedition in 2014, and it was still great when we traded it in 2019. Put one in my 2016 Focus in 2018, and it was still perfect when we traded it in in 2023. Just to be safe, I put one in our 2019 Explorer, the year after we bought it; still perfect starting! Put one as the starter motor in my bass boat over 10 years ago, and you guessed it, it's still working great! So, when the ONE YEAR OLD factory battery in our 2023 Chevrolet Trailblazer RS started acting up, I replaced it with the Odyssey ODP AGM48 H6 L3 battery. Perfect fit, but a real pain to take out the old one and install this one! But, with the Odyssey in there, I'll never have to touch THAT battery again!!!

Starts the car. Lasting through the first Maryland winter. My car can sit for 2 weeks at a time, and when I need it -- vroom. No issues. Simple install.

The seller represents this battery as fitting a 2020 GMC 2500 HD. It does not fit and will be hazardous if some engineering work is not done to properly mount this- battery. The battery is shorter than the factory battery and there is nothing in the factory mounting system to keep this battery from sliding rearward and thereby coming loose from it's limited moorings. The factory front "hold-down" clamp is beveled and intended to work against a backstop at the rear of the battery. Without a backstop the battery will easily slip out from under the front hold-down piece and become loose and dangerous. In addition, the rear hold-down (a piece that sits across the top rear of the battery) interferes with the negative terminal and must be re-shaped to clear that terminal.I kept the battery and modified the hold-down clamping system. I found the best way to hold the battery in place was to weld a piece along the rear of the re-shaped factory rear hold down strap. This added piece drops down behind the rear of the battery 1/2 inch and keeps it from sliding rearward and coming loose from the front beveled hold-down piece. I do not recommend this. If you go off-road at all or on gravel (washboard) roads you know that the battery will be violently shaken. A loose battery is dangerous.. This added piece keeps the battery from sliding back and coming out from under the front hold down piece.

Fits

I've purchased Odyssey batteries in the past and, unlike a certain yellow-top battery, I've had excellent experience with them. My factory truck battery is going on six years and still performing, but as a matter of prudence, I often go to remote places, It was time to replace it. Odyssey is my go to choice for reliability.This one was priced competitively, didn't require me to turn in my still useful old battery for a core charge and arrived at my door, two days after I ordered it. I'm confident that I'll still be running this battery years from now.

I think this battery will be great

As my batteries require changing I've started exclusively buying Odessy Performance batteries. Though I have less than a year on any of the ones I've bought they perform great. This was a direct fit into a 2018 Honda Pilot. Nothing needed to be changed. The original was an AGM and this one is good insurance. I also have two in a 2019 F250 Super Duty and they work in the cold or heat with out hesitation. This price was as good as I was going to get from the manufacturer or any other distributor. It was packaged perfectly and arrived without damage.