The price isn't bad given the warranty. Costco in the US now (since mid-2023) only gives a three year prorated warranty on interstate batteries. So despite the low price (now up to $179.99 USD, or $248.99 CAD at the time of this post) it's a pretty bad deal...
In AZ that’s still a year longer than I expect a battery to last. In the Phoenix area I plan on a new battery and a new windshield about every two years.
The problem is Costco's warranty is prorated for the entire warranty duration now.In AZ that’s still a year longer than I expect a battery to last. In the Phoenix area I plan on a new battery and a new windshield about every two years.
If you type your vehicle's information into a website like Autozone or NAPA, you will that AGM is the only option for these vehicles. At least that was my experience when the factory battery died and I had to replace it (this was before the recall). The only place that had one in stock that I could get immediately was Advanced, everybody else I had to order it and wait two days.
ya I was just surprised how much batteries have gone up. last year I had to do the wife's car and both of the kids cars at 300 buck each haha.
why would you expect it to die that fast, where I live is AZ type temps in the summer and washington type temps in the winter.In AZ that’s still a year longer than I expect a battery to last. In the Phoenix area I plan on a new battery and a new windshield about every two years.
You may be comparing to Flagstaff, because BC definitely doesn't have AZ summer temps in the range where the vast majority of our population lives. I've been in Vic and the Lake Cowichan area in the dog days and still needed a jumper in the evening.
AGMs are not cheap but should last longer.
our normal summer temps are over 35C here and we quite often are in the 40-43C range and some times 45C, our night time tems do cool down as we are higher up in the mountans, so in the summer they cool off to about 20 where I am but you get out camping and they might swing from a 42 temp during the day and 5C at night haha. I would say thoes temps are pretty close, close enough for batteries wearing out anyways. maybe more so with the extream temp swings.
Other than the famed Lytton heat wave, there's nothing in BC that would give me pause during the summer. And even that was milder than I've experienced here. Past 110F/43.5C, we don't even use numbers, we just call them "plus days". We tend to have a lot of those.
Ah, @Dude, you had to go all spreadsheet!
Yikes, most Canadians could not tolerate that prolonged extreme heat of a Phoenix summer !
That’s funny… I liked biology, physics, math and engineering but chemistry not so muchAh, @Dude, you had to go all spreadsheet!
Unrelated, my new favorite quote: If it squirms, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics. And if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.
Math annoyed me, physics entranced me, biology lost me, but I owned chemistry. It just... conformed. Componds and solutions in particular ratios always did what you wanted them to. I'm amazed I didn't turn out to be a mad bomber or Walter White.
