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The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world

1mo ago

Gotta keep yourself entertained, I guess.

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1: This girl seems cool.
2: BATTERIES ARE $220 NOW?!?!
- Just paid 350 canuck bucks for an AGM battery for a regular old RAV4.
  
  This world is cruel
  
  Can confirm, am also RAV4 owner who had to pay $350 for an AGM battery.
  
  Agm batteries are fuckin annoyingly expensive
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  270k checking in, factory battery
  
  My car hit 25k and needed a new battery
- 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.
  
  It's a couple of hunks of lead, copper, and sulfuric acid. You got robbed.
  
  Fun fact: -40c = -40f
  
  Stop buying stuff from the dealership!
- 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.
- 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
  
  Just go to Walmart lol there's always like 100 free ones in the parking lot
  Just need a crowbar and you're golden
- Another reason to love Costco.
- Newer cars call for more expensive types of battery.
  
  They're still lead acid batteries. That hasn't changed.
  
  I don’t know about that, it kinda paints a picture that the general public is being priced out of cars and their maintenance….
  Wait…
- They were never cheap...
- Just got (today!) a brand new battery for $85 (from the factory store, so not a purchasing option available for most people)
- My work truck has 2 batteries, it was a bit over $450 total 2 months ago
  
  Im building a race car, for an extra $350 I can get a battery that weighs 2kg instead of 14kg.
  Like... It does nothing else special other than weigh a shitload less.
- Yeah they're all 200+ now, I was told it's because only a few companies make batteries and with the rise in popularity of electric vehicles now they are in shorter supply.
  I don't know if that's true, but that's what some mechanic told me when I went to get a new one recently
  
  with the rise in popularity of electric vehicles now they are in shorter supply.
  This doesn't make much sense at first glance, because the battery in an electric vehicle uses completely different technology and chemistry compared to a classic car battery (lithium-ion Vs lead-acid).

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

Wait that’s more expensive per unit than one. Ya gotta throw a dog a bone in bulk.
She’s seems cool tho
- This comment has "what English sounds like to non-english speakers" vibes.
  
  As a native english speaker this
  Ya gotta they’re a dog a bone at bulk
  is just aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz

The price per battery goes up if you buy in bulk? WTF?
- 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: 🤢
  
  Or OP meant to say one was $230 and 99 was $22,000.

Is that with sales tax included?
220 x 99 = 21,780
- 5.6% sales tax?
- Maybe with a deposit.

I feel the math is wrong but maybe I just don’t know enough about car batteries
- Volume
  
  The math is wrong in the wrong direction. 99 batteries at $220 is $21,780

i remember when the same fucking battery was $80
- Seriously though, have there been battery advances that warrant that price increase or is it just capitalism rearing its ugly head again?
  
  no. they'll rip you off because you can't go without a battery
  
  If it was a modern lithium battery it would have some merit. However there has not been a single advance in lead batteries.
  
  Infinite growth, homey!
  
  Probably just capitalism, but I wouldn't be surprised if car batteries are reaping at least some of the benefits of the EV industry and their race for better batteries.
  
  Vehicles with auto stop-start will chew through batteries if they don't use the more expensive specialised battery (or disable the feature)
- I think it was 5 years ago.
- I used to drive to the bad side of town and buy a refurbished battery for $25. That battery would last at least 2 years.
- Nah, these ones are sprinkled with fairy dust. You don't want to know how much the organic fairy dust version costs.
- It is around €70 with VAT in EU (45Ah).

-5.6% "discount" lol.
- My guess is they had 6% sales tax and she rounded down on the output.

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

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

Okay, but what if...
- That was awesome
- He crazy!

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

Looking for a sugar daddy?

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