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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Andy B on 06 September 2019, 18:33:06

Title: Car battery .. how much?
Post by: Andy B on 06 September 2019, 18:33:06
https://www.petrolprices.com/news/the-1248-car-battery-scam/

makes interesting reading!  :o
Title: Re: Car battery .. how much?
Post by: STEMO on 06 September 2019, 19:15:27
A common theme in that article is that every battery cost more than an omega.
Title: Re: Car battery .. how much?
Post by: Andy B on 06 September 2019, 19:32:00
A common theme in that article is that every battery cost more than an omega.

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Car battery .. how much?
Post by: Raeturbo on 06 September 2019, 20:48:51
Go to local scrapyard £10 exchange :y
Title: Re: Car battery .. how much?
Post by: TheBoy on 07 September 2019, 08:56:01
Well, a fool and his money are easily parted, as the old saying goes.

Or to appease the modern moaners, a fool and his/her money....
Title: Re: Car battery .. how much?
Post by: Kevin Wood on 07 September 2019, 10:07:00
Well, a fool and his money are easily parted, as the old saying goes.

Or to appease the modern moaners, a fool person unendowed with common sense temporarily caught outside their "safe space" and his/her money....

FTFY, and exactly. If you choose to maintain yourself in such a state of ignorance that you can't tell that £1200 for a battery is utterly absurd you're going to get through an awful lot of money and vaseline and will only have yourself to blame. ::)
Title: Re: Car battery .. how much?
Post by: STEMO on 07 September 2019, 11:46:30
Well, a fool and his money are easily parted, as the old saying goes.

Or to appease the modern moaners, a fool person unendowed with common sense temporarily caught outside their "safe space" and his/her money....

FTFY, and exactly. If you choose to maintain yourself in such a state of ignorance that you can't tell that £1200 for a battery is utterly absurd you're going to get through an awful lot of money and vaseline and will only have yourself to blame. ::)
Surely you don't have to provide your own vaseline?  :o
Title: Re: Car battery .. how much?
Post by: ronnyd on 07 September 2019, 14:12:24
Well, a fool and his money are easily parted, as the old saying goes.

Or to appease the modern moaners, a fool person unendowed with common sense temporarily caught outside their "safe space" and his/her money....

FTFY, and exactly. If you choose to maintain yourself in such a state of ignorance that you can't tell that £1200 for a battery is utterly absurd you're going to get through an awful lot of money and vaseline and will only have yourself to blame. ::)
Surely you don't have to provide your own vaseline?  :o
Is that considered a consumable?  :o
Title: Re: Car battery .. how much?
Post by: Raeturbo on 07 September 2019, 17:52:52
That’s a slippery subject ;D
Title: Re: Car battery .. how much?
Post by: Nick W on 08 September 2019, 08:13:27
Well, a fool and his money are easily parted, as the old saying goes.

Or to appease the modern moaners, a fool person unendowed with common sense temporarily caught outside their "safe space" and his/her money....

FTFY, and exactly. If you choose to maintain yourself in such a state of ignorance that you can't tell that £1200 for a battery is utterly absurd you're going to get through an awful lot of money and vaseline and will only have yourself to blame. ::)
Surely you don't have to provide your own vaseline?  :o
Is that considered a consumable?  :o


Smeared on the terminals? Of course it's a consumable.




BATTERY terminals, lift your mind out of the gutter! Higher than that, above the waistline ;D
Title: Re: Car battery .. how much?
Post by: dave the builder on 08 September 2019, 09:24:26
indeed
ut its called Battery-Terminal Protection Spray (https://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/p/car-accessories/car-maintenance-accessories/maintenance-fluids-and-greases/cleaner-and-degreaser/?NOR2897332300&0&cc5_104&type=shopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_9Sh1OTA5AIVg7HtCh2u5gTFEAQYAyABEgIUrvD_BwE)
but the generic stuff will blow your engine and transmission and ruin your sex life
so only use proper GM branded gunk ££$ from a dealer that you go to
and don't expect delivery OR trade club discount  :-X