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#23
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:28:29 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: On 3/20/18 11:03 AM, wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:55:08 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/19/18 6:53 PM, Tim wrote: The battery is shot in my moto Guzzi. Went out when I parked it last November. It came from Walmart too and didn’t have but about 6 months in it. I probably could have taken it in and got another but no need to let it sit over the winter and get stale too. So I let it sit all winter. I noticed that Walmart had a fresh load of batteries on a pallet. Brand new dated 2/18. That’s for me! Had to go back to town this evening so I pulled the old battery for core and away I went. Got it, installed it and here goes. Hit the button and it fired right off. I could but a genuine Guzzi battery for 5 times as much and maybe get 3 years out of it. I’ve even thought of a NiCd Battery , but those are ridiculously high. So here I am back with El Cheapo. Life is good... Wow. You spend $9 less on motorcycle batteries than I do on the batteries for my lawn & garden tractor. Of course, I wouldn't buy toothpaste from Walmart. There isn't that much difference between a motorcycle battery and a lawn tractor battery, in fact the battery for a "kicker" is smaller. I buy a battery about every three years from a local power equipment repair guy. This is the same guy who picks up my lawn & garden tractor each spring, sharpens the three blades, performs a tune-up, replaces any belts that need replacing, changes the air filter, et cetera. The batteries actually are $24.95 each. Must be a northern thing. My lawn mower batteries last 5-6 years. I guess they don't sit around as much here and they never freeze. |
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#24
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:55:35 -0400, wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:28:29 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/20/18 11:03 AM, wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:55:08 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/19/18 6:53 PM, Tim wrote: The battery is shot in my moto Guzzi. Went out when I parked it last November. It came from Walmart too and didn’t have but about 6 months in it. I probably could have taken it in and got another but no need to let it sit over the winter and get stale too. So I let it sit all winter. I noticed that Walmart had a fresh load of batteries on a pallet. Brand new dated 2/18. That’s for me! Had to go back to town this evening so I pulled the old battery for core and away I went. Got it, installed it and here goes. Hit the button and it fired right off. I could but a genuine Guzzi battery for 5 times as much and maybe get 3 years out of it. I’ve even thought of a NiCd Battery , but those are ridiculously high. So here I am back with El Cheapo. Life is good... Wow. You spend $9 less on motorcycle batteries than I do on the batteries for my lawn & garden tractor. Of course, I wouldn't buy toothpaste from Walmart. There isn't that much difference between a motorcycle battery and a lawn tractor battery, in fact the battery for a "kicker" is smaller. I buy a battery about every three years from a local power equipment repair guy. This is the same guy who picks up my lawn & garden tractor each spring, sharpens the three blades, performs a tune-up, replaces any belts that need replacing, changes the air filter, et cetera. The batteries actually are $24.95 each. Must be a northern thing. My lawn mower batteries last 5-6 years. I guess they don't sit around as much here and they never freeze. I'm sure. Cold weather and batteries don't like each other. And, most of us don't do much motorcycling when the temp is in the 30's or below. |
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#26
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:28:05 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 3/20/2018 12:14 PM, wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:23:15 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/20/18 11:05 AM, wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:26:57 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/20/2018 7:55 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/19/18 6:53 PM, Tim wrote: The battery is shot in my moto Guzzi. Went out when I parked it last November. It came from Walmart too and didn’t have but about 6 months in it.Â* I probably could have taken it in and got another but no need to let it sit over the winter and get stale too. So I let it sit all winter. I noticed that Walmart had a fresh load of batteries on a pallet. Brand new dated 2/18.Â*Â* That’s for me! Had to go back to town this evening so I pulled the old battery for core and away I went. Got it, installed it and here goes. Hit the button and it fired right off. I could but a genuine Guzzi battery for 5 times as much and maybe get 3 years out of it. I’ve even thought of a NiCd Battery , but those are ridiculously high. So here I am back with El Cheapo.Â*Â* Life is good... Wow. You spend $9 less onÂ* motorcycle batteries than I do on the batteries for my lawn & garden tractor. Of course, I wouldn't buy toothpaste from Walmart. You think the Crest or Colgate sold at Walmart is different than that sold anywhere else? Don't you know? Walmart gets theirs from Chinese slave labor camps but if you go to Giant it is all union made in a boutique factory in Connecticut. That is why it costs twice as much. In many cases, products are made especially for walmart and tend to be chintzier than the products carried by other stores. I doubt if this applies to toothpaste, though. I doubt it applies to any branded product. Why would anyone put their name on an inferior product, no matter where it gets sold. In fact most "store brand" are basically the same as the branded product. I do agree Walmart does bring in a lot of junk to hit a price point but it generally will not have a brand name on it that you have ever heard of. In the case of batteries, Johnson Controls makes Walmart batteries and they have their name right there. Since there are really only a few companies that make batteries under hundreds of brand names they tend to just be commodity items. You can use the warranty as a guide to quality but the battery I just replaced was a Walmart "2 year" battery and it was 10 years old. I probably could have nursed another year out of it but why bother? It was in a truck we seldom drive so it needs to be able to hold a charge. It was a little sluggish turning over after sitting about a month and I decided it was time. I did manage to get the truck started but it was one of those miracle starts where it was either going to fire or start clicking ;-) The thing I like about Walmart is if you do have a battery fail within the warranty it is a no hassle return. I think you could take one in with a bullet hole in it and they would give you a new one. (For Walmart, that night not even be unusual) Used to get a kick out of the ads and perceived great reputation of the Sears "Diehard" batteries. They are nothing more than a Johnson Controls battery and previously Exide batteries, depending on who Sears contracted with. Again it is still all about the warranty. Sears was as good as Walmart about a no questions asked replacement. One of my old Md buddies used to use Die Hards in his drag racer. It did not even have a charging system. He ran them all weekend on a single charge and throw it on the charger before the next weekend's racing. Sometimes he ran them flat down. They did not last long but he just threw it on the counter at Sears and they gave him a new one. |
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$21.00 happiness....
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:20:47 -0400, John H.
wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:55:35 -0400, wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:28:29 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/20/18 11:03 AM, wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:55:08 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/19/18 6:53 PM, Tim wrote: The battery is shot in my moto Guzzi. Went out when I parked it last November. It came from Walmart too and didn’t have but about 6 months in it. I probably could have taken it in and got another but no need to let it sit over the winter and get stale too. So I let it sit all winter. I noticed that Walmart had a fresh load of batteries on a pallet. Brand new dated 2/18. That’s for me! Had to go back to town this evening so I pulled the old battery for core and away I went. Got it, installed it and here goes. Hit the button and it fired right off. I could but a genuine Guzzi battery for 5 times as much and maybe get 3 years out of it. I’ve even thought of a NiCd Battery , but those are ridiculously high. So here I am back with El Cheapo. Life is good... Wow. You spend $9 less on motorcycle batteries than I do on the batteries for my lawn & garden tractor. Of course, I wouldn't buy toothpaste from Walmart. There isn't that much difference between a motorcycle battery and a lawn tractor battery, in fact the battery for a "kicker" is smaller. I buy a battery about every three years from a local power equipment repair guy. This is the same guy who picks up my lawn & garden tractor each spring, sharpens the three blades, performs a tune-up, replaces any belts that need replacing, changes the air filter, et cetera. The batteries actually are $24.95 each. Must be a northern thing. My lawn mower batteries last 5-6 years. I guess they don't sit around as much here and they never freeze. I'm sure. Cold weather and batteries don't like each other. And, most of us don't do much motorcycling when the temp is in the 30's or below. Yup, I had trouble getting 2 years out of a MC battery up there. |
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#28
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$21.00 happiness....
On 3/20/18 2:08 PM, justan wrote:
Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 3/20/18 11:05 AM, wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:26:57 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/20/2018 7:55 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/19/18 6:53 PM, Tim wrote: The battery is shot in my moto Guzzi. Went out when I parked it last November. It came from Walmart too and didn?t have but about 6 months in it. I probably could have taken it in and got another but no need to let it sit over the winter and get stale too. So I let it sit all winter. I noticed that Walmart had a fresh load of batteries on a pallet. Brand new dated 2/18. That?s for me! Had to go back to town this evening so I pulled the old battery for core and away I went. Got it, installed it and here goes. Hit the button and it fired right off. I could but a genuine Guzzi battery for 5 times as much and maybe get 3 years out of it. I?ve even thought of a NiCd Battery , but those are ridiculously high. So here I am back with El Cheapo. Life is good... Wow. You spend $9 less on motorcycle batteries than I do on the batteries for my lawn & garden tractor. Of course, I wouldn't buy toothpaste from Walmart. You think the Crest or Colgate sold at Walmart is different than that sold anywhere else? Don't you know? Walmart gets theirs from Chinese slave labor camps but if you go to Giant it is all union made in a boutique factory in Connecticut. That is why it costs twice as much. In many cases, products are made especially for walmart and tend to be chintzier than the products carried by other stores. I doubt if this applies to toothpaste, though. That was Sears MO. Look where Sears is today. What brick and morter retailer is larger than Walmart? I'm supposed to care about the semi-thoughts that plague your pea-sized brain? |
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$21.00 happiness....
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:45:23 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/20/18 2:08 PM, justan wrote: Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 3/20/18 11:05 AM, wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:26:57 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/20/2018 7:55 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/19/18 6:53 PM, Tim wrote: The battery is shot in my moto Guzzi. Went out when I parked it last November. It came from Walmart too and didn?t have but about 6 months in it. I probably could have taken it in and got another but no need to let it sit over the winter and get stale too. So I let it sit all winter. I noticed that Walmart had a fresh load of batteries on a pallet. Brand new dated 2/18. That?s for me! Had to go back to town this evening so I pulled the old battery for core and away I went. Got it, installed it and here goes. Hit the button and it fired right off. I could but a genuine Guzzi battery for 5 times as much and maybe get 3 years out of it. I?ve even thought of a NiCd Battery , but those are ridiculously high. So here I am back with El Cheapo. Life is good... Wow. You spend $9 less on motorcycle batteries than I do on the batteries for my lawn & garden tractor. Of course, I wouldn't buy toothpaste from Walmart. You think the Crest or Colgate sold at Walmart is different than that sold anywhere else? Don't you know? Walmart gets theirs from Chinese slave labor camps but if you go to Giant it is all union made in a boutique factory in Connecticut. That is why it costs twice as much. In many cases, products are made especially for walmart and tend to be chintzier than the products carried by other stores. I doubt if this applies to toothpaste, though. That was Sears MO. Look where Sears is today. What brick and morter retailer is larger than Walmart? I'm supposed to care about the semi-thoughts that plague your pea-sized brain? You responded; ergo, you care, eh dippy? |
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$21.00 happiness....
John H. Wrote in message:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:45:23 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/20/18 2:08 PM, justan wrote: Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 3/20/18 11:05 AM, wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:26:57 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/20/2018 7:55 AM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/19/18 6:53 PM, Tim wrote: The battery is shot in my moto Guzzi. Went out when I parked it last November. It came from Walmart too and didn?t have but about 6 months in it. I probably could have taken it in and got another but no need to let it sit over the winter and get stale too. So I let it sit all winter. I noticed that Walmart had a fresh load of batteries on a pallet. Brand new dated 2/18. That?s for me! Had to go back to town this evening so I pulled the old battery for core and away I went. Got it, installed it and here goes. Hit the button and it fired right off. I could but a genuine Guzzi battery for 5 times as much and maybe get 3 years out of it. I?ve even thought of a NiCd Battery , but those are ridiculously high. So here I am back with El Cheapo. Life is good... Wow. You spend $9 less on motorcycle batteries than I do on the batteries for my lawn & garden tractor. Of course, I wouldn't buy toothpaste from Walmart. You think the Crest or Colgate sold at Walmart is different than that sold anywhere else? Don't you know? Walmart gets theirs from Chinese slave labor camps but if you go to Giant it is all union made in a boutique factory in Connecticut. That is why it costs twice as much. In many cases, products are made especially for walmart and tend to be chintzier than the products carried by other stores. I doubt if this applies to toothpaste, though. That was Sears MO. Look where Sears is today. What brick and morter retailer is larger than Walmart? I'm supposed to care about the semi-thoughts that plague your pea-sized brain? You responded; ergo, you care, eh dippy? He's like an addict. Without the daily dose you and I give him he'd think he's normal. -- x |
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