Need to replace my two 6 volt golf cart batteries in my Solitude. Does anyone have any experience with the Interstate GC2ECL 6 VOLTS?

You can save some money buying DEKA GC2 6 volt batteries from places like Batteries Plus and others. The DEKA and the Interstate are both made by East Penn Battery Corp.

Most automotive batteries made in America are manufactured by one of two companies: Johnson Controls, Inc. or Exide Technologies. The dominant replacement market brand names, Interstate and DieHard, are both Johnson Controls products, as is the Optima brand.Usually the batteries are the same except for the badging.

Don't buy the Interstates! Buy Deka AGM 240 each I think or less.Interstates when the company bought Johnson Controls many years ago now and just up the road, started making the Interstate brand after a year made them with thinner plates etc but their marketing was great. On my daughters truck I replaced Interstate batteries from Wal Mart about every year.Wife stuck on the side of the road with factory batter about to explode, north of Atlanta, in 2018 bought an Interstate from a gas station down the hill from the road. 2019 it went bad and in a series of event cascaded into $4,000.00 in repairs the batter would not hold a charge and in Shawnee, Oklahoma, the Parts stores would no replace it because the mechanic did not punch out the date of purchase, unknown to my wife. Johnson Controls makes a lot of batteries under different names and quality, and I have no idea which one to recommend if any. Teh battery n my AMG is over ten years old, I don't know the brand and hard to get too. I find out I may put them in my other vehicles.

Consider twin SiO2--or one 216 amp-hour unit.

lryrob9301 wrote:You can save some money buying DEKA GC2 6 volt batteries from places like Batteries Plus and others. The DEKA and the Interstate are both made by East Penn Battery Corp.Can you prove Interstate is made by East Penn?

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pianotuna
Nomad III
Oct 07, 2021
BobsYourUncle,

The colder the better for storage, so long as the batteries are fully charged when they are put away.

Fully charged they will freeze at - 70 C (-94 f). At that temperature I'm sure we would have a lot of other worries.
ferndaleflyer
Explorer III
Oct 07, 2021
I have 2 Interstates in my diesel pickup that are 9 years old. I took them out of my race car and put new ones in there couple of years back. But when I realized that Johnson Controls made them and Wal Marts I replaced 3 of the DP batteries with Wal-Marts at 1/2 the price 3 years ago. So far so good.
wa8yxm
Explorer III
Oct 07, 2021
lryrob9301 wrote:
You can save some money buying DEKA GC2 6 volt batteries from places like Batteries Plus and others. The DEKA and the Interstate are both made by East Penn Battery Corp.

Thought Interstate was either Johnson Controls or US Battery..

But that said I replaced Interstates with Deka. Mostly because it was a DEKA store (GC2's can be a bit of an issue finding them Going to Sam's club was an option but by the time I spent the gas and the membership fee.. DEKA was cheaper).

My Interstats lasted 9 years. My Dekas the rest of the life of the motor home (Were still strong till I killed them and I do mean I killed them they did not die of old age. I ran 'em down to nothign and lef them there for a month. )

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