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OliverGuy

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One of my friends says the local auto shop in a nearby town sells refurbished batteries with a 3 month or something warranty for $40-60 or something like that. How do you refurb a sealed battery or are these out of a junk yard car? Anyone do that near you?
 
If the top is removed, and the cells chemically and mechanically cleaned of Sulfate bridging that shorts them out, it could have a bit of life remaining. Assuming 50, it seems like a poor choice of investment. Jim
 
Bet you a dozen donughts ...he he.. most likely they are junkyard or wreck, or sombody bought a new battery and left the old one. It is a crap shoot. I have bought quite a few bargain batteries and most of the time have done very well. You can get skunked, but I have nothing to complain about. Referb means they cleaned the thing up, and or put a good charger/ maintainer on for a week or two. Give it a good test with a carbon load and if it passed, there you go. Not Russian roulette, just know what to look for and getting a couple of month return is nice too.
 
I buy new ones for $48 at L&M fleet supply in MN. Granted, only 540CCA, but that?s plenty for starting smaller tractors. Even larger ones are rarely over $75.
 
I went to one of those places a couple years ago.

Needed a battery just to move an old car, so went with the cheapest he had. Didn't have much expectation, and sure enough, it did not hold a charge, but got the car moved.

Sign said new, used, rebuilt. I didn't see any thing pertaining to rebuilding, just old batteries cooking on chargers.

This shop was in a very, very bad part of town. There was a sign offering $10 for batteries. I suspect most were stolen.
 
I use to buy all my batteries at Sam's with their 3 year guarantee. I took one back that was 2 1/2 years old that went bad in my wife's van. Its the only one I can remember taking back. I had a heck of a go around with them getting them to replace it which they finally did after wasting a hour of my time and finally talking to the store manager. Its the last time I've got a battery their. Their argument was allot of people bring them back after a couple of years wanting a new one.

I've been buying my batteries from a place that sell no-name batteries that are stamped with a Blemish. I have seven of them in service now between tractors, pickup, and even my dump trailer with a deep cycle. I've had a couple of them over 5 years now and he gives me a no questions asked 3 year guarantee. I've only had one go bad after 1 year and he gave me a new one. All his batteries are 40 bucks no matter the size, even his deep cycle batteries.
 
Yes all over the place around here used car dealers sale them that should tell you sum'N... No reputable shop would even think about going there.

Two pluses in there corner a boat load of bats are replaced that are not bad a boat load of bats are replaced that will start a car but are short winded. Lets add Three the art of load checking a battery is almost extinct...

I would wager haft there inventory are more would fail a load test...
 
There is a self service junkyard not far from here. Went there to get a head lamp. In the main room they had a stack of used batteries with no warrenty for $60.00ea plus exchange. I don't know why anyone would spend $60 for a battery that could be 5 years old. (They scrap the date codes off) or why they would need exchange. They also had used washer fluid for $2.50 gallon.
 
Might do better to go to your Interstate battery store and ask for a "blem" battery. What they sell you is a new battery that has set on a store shelf for what they consider too long to be considered new.
They remove the original ID tag and replace it with a generic name tag and warranty it for 30 days.
They load test the battery to make sure it meets at least the rated CA/ CCA amps. Most times you will get a new $100-150 battery for $50. I have bought many Interstate "blems" through the years and have never been disappointed.
 
You wouldn't beleave how many of those i have purchased. Trouble is that they don't always have them. Now and then you luck out and get one of those Optima batteries.
 
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