Anybody bought a new car battery lately

[64MercurysRule]

The 1994 Isuzu Pickup was the last new vehicle sold in the United States with a carburetor.

 

[b18_ek_zach]

Not to advertise but go into you batteryxchange they have reconditioned batteries for 65$ 6 month warranty new ones installed for with a 18 month free replacement 6 year prorate and even more options available if you come into the one in Hillsboro ask for Zach and say your a member on nw firearms il give you a good guy price even have your agm battery's in different brands deep cycle batteries atv batteries whatever battery you need I can probably get or have in stock

 

[rjmt]

we have a Subaru Outback and Forester
Subaru factory batteries a sh**, if you don't drive them every day, they go dead once a month due to the on-board electronics
we only drive our cars once every 2 weeks, 16 mi round trip, to go food shopping
replaced them with the biggest battery I could get in the battery tray, at $265 each
haven't had an issue with ether Subaru since

 

[GrayGoose]

Just bought an Optima Red Top for my Dodge Ram over the past weekend. Advance Auto Parts going out of business clearance sale in Corvallis, 50% off. Damn good deal.

 

[OrPackrat]

Grabbed a Costco battery for my wife's new to her car last year, $100.

A factory special hybrid 12v starting battery is a few hundred for my 05 prius but since the battery only powers the on board computers and no actual starter, when that battery dies, I'll just install the largest SLA battery that will fit the spot...

 

[Colt Carbine]

Bought a new battery the other day for the Mustang from O'Reilly at $139. About 4 months ago I purchased 2 batteries for the F350 it was just under $500.

Unfortunately, every thing cost more these days.

 

[jweirdo]

I bought a Weize Platinum AGM Battery BCI Group 94R for $160-ish last year from Amazon hoping batteries are such low-tech that it's a good deal. Local parts stores wanted $270 for their cheap AGM. Time will tell.

 

[buffalow]

Like our Kia, fairly economical to purchase , but many of the " normal" maintenance things are extremely expensive IMO

 

[Boyandhisdogs]

I buy mine at costco. They are only about $100 for my truck and they have a good warranty.

 

[Catbox]

I buy mine at costco. They are only about $100 for my truck and they have a good warranty.

We are about to go that route again for our Suburban.
6 years out of the last one and it is an Interstate battery as well.

 

[made in china]

I buy mine at costco. They are only about $100 for my truck and they have a good warranty.

Recently, Costco significantly reduced the battery warranty.

Still my preferred place to buy a battery.

 

[Alexx1401]

I buy mine at costco. They are only about $100 for my truck and they have a good warranty.

The problem now days is so many cars have a spot for the battery that limits what will fit. As an example I just searched CostCo for 3 vehicles I own. This is the current price for the ones I own. The Kia uses the smallest of the 3, the Dodge is a Muscle car and uses a battery that looks like it should be in an RV, yet it is the cheapest. LONG gone are the days when you could just stick any battery on the mount and bolt it down.
Kia Rio $180
Dodge $125
Jeep $180

 

[jbett98]

Does anybody hate GM's side post batteries as much as I do?

 

[64MercurysRule]

I had enough space to put these on the flat post battery ......

 

[fjackson95]

If you've bought one lately, you know they aren't giving them away. I don't mean the kind for an EV car, just a normal ICE vehicle. They cost $150 and up, depending on what size and where bought. Mrs. Merkt's 2012 Hyundai battery had a 2017 case date on it. That's approx. seven years old. I did a static charge test on it, the voltage was getting down there but the battery wasn't giving any sign of imminent failure. But for a change, I decided not to try to get my last nickel's worth of current out of it before it fully crapped out. The previous replacement battery I'd bought at the Hyundai dealer for $125. It had a nice little folding carry handle on the top. The replacement that I bought this week was made exactly the same way, even down to the detail on the handle. The only difference was it had a NAPA sticker on it instead of Hyundai. Obviously made in the same factory. The latest one cost $180 plus tax.

Our son has a 2012 Lexus CT 200h, a little hybrid car. He bought it new, it has about 100K miles on it. That one has batteries for the electric motors, plus a "normal" battery for starting the IC engine. He hasn't had to replace the electric motor batteries, but of course the engine battery has been. It's been an excellent little car in terms of low operational cost. He follows the book on periodic maintenance but beyond that I don't think it's every needed any work. It was a breath of fresh air after his owning several German cars, all of which were a pain in the rump and costly to operate.

I just got 2 battery's for my diesel and was over 400$ after tax!

 

[Ducati_Meister]

Powersports batteries are a insanely expensive too, $260 for a run of the mill Yuasa lead acid sealed battery I had to get for a local PDs motorcycle. Price gouging at its best.

 

[Alexx1401]

Powersports batteries are a insanely expensive too, $260 for a run of the mill Yuasa lead acid sealed battery I had to get for a local PDs motorcycle. Price gouging at its best.

NO EXPERT by any stretch here but VERY much suspect this is supply vs demand. Every look at the price of
32 ACP ammo compared to 9mm ammo? Is the .32 price gouging? To manufacture something the cost is spread out with how much of it is made. I would "guess" not a ton of those batteries are made. Making VERY small lots of anything makes it FAR more expensive to produce.

 

[Nosferatu]

Powersports batteries are a insanely expensive too, $260 for a run of the mill Yuasa lead acid sealed battery I had to get for a local PDs motorcycle. Price gouging at its best.

Yeah, I put a lithium battery in my Triumph last year and thus far, there has been no downside. It has a low-voltage cutoff feature that only allows it to drain to a certain point so it won't leave you stranded. It starts much stronger and also dropped almost 4lbs from the bike, which added 93HP!

The dead-acid on my ATV hasn't survived the winter and will be getting the same lithium replacement.

 

[Catbox]

I had enough space to put these on the flat post battery ......

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I did the same on my daughters 1992 Camaro.
I rather like the military style connectors thought.
We build all of the cables, so they are easy to tailor to fit the vehicle.

 

[Ducati_Meister]

Yeah, I put a lithium battery in my Triumph last year and thus far, there has been no downside. It has a low-voltage cutoff feature that only allows it to drain to a certain point so it won't leave you stranded. It starts much stronger and also dropped almost 4lbs from the bike, which added 93HP!

The dead-acid on my ATV hasn't survived the winter and will be getting the same lithium replacement.

I think they expect people to use a battery tender on those lead acid batteries, especially on the bikes, ATVs etc. Many don't I suppose, so dealers probably can make a killing on new batteries in the spring.