Having recently replaced my third CT battery, this thread has been eye opening.
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They also went up by $50, have all my previous receipts to compare. Damn.
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Having recently replaced my third CT battery, this thread has been eye opening.
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They also went up by $50, have all my previous receipts to compare. Damn.
I can eat more hot wings than you.
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If you're at CT you're probably getting Tupperware. That's the only quick thing you can find. Or $5 WD-40 cans. Or air fresheners.
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I assume everything I buy at Canadian tire is disposable.
Time and place for everything.
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Cheap oil as well at CT.
I must be lucky as my MM Eliminator Battery just survived the deep freeze and is still working.
I might have caught it in time after it froze to prevent swelling / damage.
Warranty expired 2 years ago. Borrowed time...Maybe, but I'll take it.
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Battery quality is not really a thing, and no vendor makes thier own. Warranty and service are what really vary. CT is very bad at that.
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But 2 weeks ago when I exchanged my CT battery under warranty, it was about a 90-minute visit. 10am on a Thursday morning.
It certainly wasn't super fast, but it wasn't anything I didn't expect.
First 20 minutes was waiting for someone to be available.
Then I had to bring in the battery and they hooked it up to their tester. That's really the time issue - you can get results in 10 minutes or 90 minutes.
But the guy actually brought me behind the curtain to show the progress, and it showed "testing" with a bunch of other stuff, and then I happened to be standing there when the screen switched to red "REPLACE".
So then he got me a new battery and I was out.
It wasn't painless, but it also didn't seem completely arbitrary.
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I'd gladly spend an extra $150-200 to avoid spending 90mins in the Canadian Tire auto center.
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CT's "battery testing" is suspect at best. Yes, I'll bet the battery that wouldn't start my car after it sat for 3 days in winter will now pass as I had to hook it up to the battery maintainer for several hours and then drive straight to CT.
Don't waste your time negotiating with the staff who will begrudgingly replace it only when they realize you're not leaving till they do so.
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