12 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

That hurts Fred...almost offensive...saying she's from Pasadena, CA

 

Says up above that I am on a woodworking site...

Are you saying she's from Pasadena, Super Glue Dave?  Never heard of the place...

8 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

I'll never buy another battery at wally world. Went through five of them before they'd give us our money back. Not sure if it was just a bad batch, but they had half a skid of returned ones all the same group number.

bummer for sure, nothing like a gaggle of lemons to sour the day

rj in az

11 minutes ago, knockonit said:

bummer for sure, nothing like a gaggle of lemons to sour the day

rj in az

Sure was, left car stranded in four different locations in the middle of winter.

They tried insisting I had a bad alternator, my and their auto shop meters showed the alternator was fine. 

 

I buy a lot of parts at boneyards, some most people wouldn't think about. Paid $10.00 a piece for what looked like brand new rear rotors for the Pilot, they didn't even have the beginning of surface rust anywhere on them. AutoZone listed price $69.99-91.49. Also took what looked like brand new calipers/mounting brackets off the same vehicle $15.00 each versus $85.99 at AutoZone. The new looking pads ($39.99-61.99 at Autozone) were a freebie! 

 

For my Dodge truck, the steering box seal at the pitman arm decided to let the PS fluid run out as fast as you could pour it in. Took me a little over a year to find a good (Non leaking) one in the boneyards. $40.00 pull it yourself, $1295-1385.00 for a rebuilt. (Only used for 1998-2000 model years standard cab/short bed 4X4)

 

You'd be surprised how many new/almost new parts end up in a boneyard.

Of course you need to take the time to pull the parts, but with price differences like those I'll make the time.

 

IIRC the last battery I got at a boneyard lasted almost 5 years, paid $15.00 for it.