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Hopefully these are better than the crappy Walmart batteries this thing had in it when I bought it. Those batteries were new in Feb of this year, and both were DOA this morning when I attempted to start her. I had a full charge, but as soon as I flicked the starter there was not enough juice to even spin the starter. I'll never again have a Walmart battery. I had issue with one several years back in my F250 V10. It tested at Napa and clearly was a bad battery, but the local Walmart would not warranty it and told me it was fine. I replaced it out of pocket elsewhere and naturally no more issues.
Same thing today, both batteries showed less than 150 CCA at both an Oreilly's and a Napa store. Walmart said they were "within specs" but refused to let me watch them test it or show me the printout.
Popped the new batteries in and you'd have thought I just gave the old beast a new heart. They spun that starter faster than I ever remember. Hopefully these Duralasts don't give me any trouble.
Your experience with wal mart batts is not uncommon. Everytime I used to have a customer's car come in with a bad batt , if it was a wally world batt that was under warranty, I'd try to take it in for them to see if I could get the things replaced, but they ALWAYS tested out good at wally world. All they would do is put a voltmeter on the things and if they even came close to 12v it was a pass, and of course, they would have to charge the thing to "test" it if if came in dead as a doornail, so they'd pull it off the fast charge and lo and behold, they would get 12v, but they would refuse to give them any kind of load test, or let it sit 10 minutes and try again. Every one was declared good, but they'd be happy to sell another one.
Then I'd take it across the street to Advance and they'd put it on a real tester and every one would test out dead as a doornail . I know the guys there, and I'always try, to take their printout back to wally to see if I could get them to make good on the pile of junk, but it was always no go because they had tested it good
What a scam, so Id have to call my customers up and see what they wanted to do with their worthless warranty batt
Whos ever heard of a place that sells that many batts that doesnt even have so much as a simple load tester.
I can't believe nobody had any 31s batts there. Usually even autozone and advance etc carries the things, Tractor supply carries them, They're pretty common.