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John B.

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My son has a 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix. It needed a battery last week. We gave him a blank check and he ordered one from O'Rieley's. Well it cost $169.xx plus $15 core charge. It's a special battery for that car they said. Next time I'll take the blank check...
I called another store and they told me the same thing that it took a special battery.
 
Sounds ridiculous to me, but there are some oddball batteries in use. Is it under the back seat? He must not of taken the old one with him or there would of been no core charge. I bought a new Exide lawn tractor battery last week for $14 at Menards!
 
Bought a 6 volt for my 49 F5 ford friday at napa, $97.00. Its bigger than the car and tractor 6 volts, but not the big industural size.
 
(quoted from post at 21:03:37 03/24/13) My son has a 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix. ordered one from O'Rieley's. Well it cost $169.xx plus $15 core charge. It's a special battery for that car they said. it took a special battery.
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Hum, Orielly's website list 6 batteries for that car. 3 are Optima batteries and 3 are conventional. Without sales tax, the conventional batteries run $119.99, $129.99, & $154.99 (glass mat). The core charge is $15.00 for all of them. They show them as size 34.
 
Grand Prix battery is under the hood. The original battery was what is called an Absorbent Glass Mat battery, or AGM battery. They were junk and GM discontinued them, I doubt his car even still had one. They can be replaced with a standard Group 34 battery. I sell Interstates,a five year MT-34 runs $123 with tax.
 
My wife also drives a 2004 Gran Prix and when the battery died (5 years old to the day. A conspiracy I tell you) it was nothing special. Advance Auto had it in stock and as others have said I think it was a standard group 34 or something. Somewhere between 50 to 75 bucks. I know that because I'm too cheap to pay over $100 for a battery. (OK, so I paid $125 for a 4D for the backhoe)

Jim
 
That's a great buy. I recently bought a LM battery at WW for about 25 and it was the 230 cca.

Like everything else batteries have gone through the roof "but we have no core inflation" snicker snicker.

I think cleaning up the lead smelting is what drove that price up.....or it was just big corporations looking to feed their CEO and knew the general public needed batteries.

Mark
 
My 2005 Buick and 2007 GMC both use the same delco battery. The dealer wanted about $170 for the battery. I think the delco is an AGM battery. I went to rural king, bought a conventional excide battery $45 on sale. Been using them in both vehicles for over a year.

I"m real cheap.
 
Walmart has the Group34 battery for $99.00 with an exchange battery. It has a 3 year free replacement if it fails. I use their batteries in all my vehicles including my garden tractor. Hal
 
I think alot of it is markup. most places want 130-150 for a Group 31 battery, but the local Volvo dealer sells Exides for $89. More greed at every level really drives the price up.
 
Best quality deal in Indianapolis is AAA if you are a member. They have a battery truck that comes to your place, replaces with a AAA battery, they haul off the old battery and they test the charging system. All for $129.
 
my look up gives this note

AGM valve regulated battery OE, At customer's direction, a flooded battery may be substituted. [b:8a33b23801]May cause charging system to perform below specifications.[/b:8a33b23801] , Battery sheild may need to be modified. Do Not Remove., , Part CCA: 775, Cranking Amps: 955, Reserve Capacity: 120, OE Group: 34, OE CCA: 690
 
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