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[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 198 points 11 months ago

1: This girl seems cool.

2: BATTERIES ARE $220 NOW?!?!

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 56 points 11 months ago

Just paid 350 canuck bucks for an AGM battery for a regular old RAV4.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 25 points 11 months ago
[-] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 17 points 11 months ago

I replaced my car battery a few years ago thinking it was just going to be $50. $175 later...

[-] rmtworks@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Can confirm, am also RAV4 owner who had to pay $350 for an AGM battery.

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[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

To be fair, they seem to be better than they used to. My car hit 200k not too long ago and still has its original battery. I have no problems with it but I remember having much newer batteries where it was a gamble on cold mornings if it would start. Purely anecdotal though.

[-] greenhorn@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

My car has 130k and I keep wondering when the battery is going to die, because when I was younger they didn't last this long and I just kinda forgot about it until it occurred to me recently.

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[-] vodka@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

I just paid ~650usd for a new battery for my Toyota. Though I bought an extra expensive one to have good enough amps for starting in -40c and colder.

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 13 points 11 months ago

It's a couple of hunks of lead, copper, and sulfuric acid. You got robbed.

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You can get AGM or even lion batteries which cost a little more and are a bit more involved but 600 still sounds high.

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[-] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago

Fun fact: -40c = -40f

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Stop buying stuff from the dealership!

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[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Went to check if they were cheaper at Walmart, found they were 70-140 for a normal lead acid battery.

It popped up with an ad asking me to do a free month trial of Walmart+ or what not. I was like why would I want this. And the FIRST line wasn't about free delivery, cheaper gas prices or some shit, it was 25% percent off Burger King daily. (Guessing they say daily so you don't stand outside and give everyone 25% off on the drive thru.). But still... Why the fuck is fast food charging so much that they can afford to throw another 25% to Walmart.

[-] Kvoth@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Don't ever buy batteries from an auto parts store. Find a hole in the wall hardware store or a rural king or something like that and you'll get them way cheaper

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Another reason to love Costco.

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

They were never cheap...

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[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 184 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When you try to hit on someone but your charisma is −5.

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago
[-] psud@aussie.zone 7 points 11 months ago
[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago
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[-] HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net 82 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Wait that’s more expensive per unit than one. Ya gotta throw a dog a bone in bulk.

She’s seems cool tho

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 33 points 11 months ago
[-] kautau@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As a native english speaker this

Ya gotta they’re a dog a bone at bulk

is just aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz

[-] Tinynuggins@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago

*you gotta throw a dog a bone at bulk

Lol

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 63 points 11 months ago

The price per battery goes up if you buy in bulk? WTF?

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

This is probably some US nonsense where the battery was $220 without tax, and the value at the register for the 99 batteries was with tax.

Needless to say: 🤢

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 11 months ago

Or OP meant to say one was $230 and 99 was $22,000.

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[-] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 52 points 11 months ago

I feel the math is wrong but maybe I just don’t know enough about car batteries

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 50 points 11 months ago

Is that with sales tax included?

220 x 99 = 21,780

[-] Jayve@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

5.6% sales tax?

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 34 points 11 months ago

My guess is they had 6% sales tax and she rounded down on the output.

[-] kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

Thought for sure this was a Dull Men's Club post

[-] Ele7en7@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

I did something similar in the early '90s, but it was a carved wooden eagle at Busch Gardens. When I hit the sub total button the P.O.S. system for the whole park crashed because it was around a million dollars. lmao

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago
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[-] edg@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

I don't know why this is so funny but I'm cackling like a fool.

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