Posts: 518
Threads: 50
Joined: Jul 2017
11-24-2018, 11:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-24-2018, 11:39 AM by GCG. Edited 1 time in total.)
About 4-5 years ago I bought a battery for my wife's car at Oreilly's. I think it was about $80. It went dead after a couple of years and they replaced it free of charge. No questions asked. So today I went back to them for another battery, (same car), and the price had almost doubled to $150!
WTF is up with that? Have batteries really gone up that much?
Posts: 5,371
Threads: 65
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 4,926
Threads: 34
Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 22,606
Threads: 795
Joined: Jan 2011
Everything is going up... you have tRump to thank for it.
Sent from my SM-G928V using Tapatalk
Posts: 41,856
Threads: 560
Joined: Mar 2009
11-24-2018, 01:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-24-2018, 01:32 PM by tvguy. Edited 1 time in total.)
(11-24-2018, 11:36 AM)GCG Wrote: About 4-5 years ago I bought a battery for my wife's car at Oreilly's. I think it was about $80. It went dead after a couple of years and they replaced it free of charge. No questions asked. So today I went back to them for another battery, (same car), and the price had almost doubled to $150! WTF is up with that? Have batteries really gone up that much?
No , you just got taken for a ride
Here are Walmart batteries. It looks like prices may have gone up a little but not that much.There's a 5 year warranted battery for 93 bucks.
It went dead after a couple of years and they replaced it free of charge.
Well that part is pretty awesome, I've never known anyone to do that. It would be interested to to know what brand battery, what warranty and how many cold cranking amps.
Posts: 3,553
Threads: 81
Joined: Oct 2013
I forget the particulars but interstate has a reman 1 or 2 year warranty battery i have always had good luck with, pretty sure the last one I bought was $45, still running in both of our cars and cranking over daily. The one in my wife's car is from 2014, it has been cranking a little slow on cold mornings, I plan to replace it soon. But 4 years for that pricd, can't complain.
Posts: 518
Threads: 50
Joined: Jul 2017
Posts: 18,298
Threads: 867
Joined: Mar 2011
Quote:It went dead after a couple of years and they replaced it free of charge.
I would have thought they'd replace it, fully charged.
Posts: 15,666
Threads: 422
Joined: Feb 2009
Batteries might be the only reason I'd go to Wal*Mart since they are nationwide.