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Old 12-24-2014, 05:25 PM   #11
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Re: batteries

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Originally Posted by Bigdav160 View Post
I recently had to replace all four batteries in our daily drivers (24 valve). They were Carquest Advanced generation made by East Penn. They didn't make it 5 years before I started getting bad cells. I bought these with, what I thought, was a 84 month (prorate) warranty. Carquest wouldn't honor it so I went with ACDelco AGM's. A month ago I was able to get these from amazon (no core) for $100 each.
I can't remember if it was last year or the year before, but the gov't changed the manufacter's specs on warranties, and then the pr-rating stuff came about. There were a lot of mad customers everywhere about it.
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