--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET> wrote:

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Jack, I have been using the Wal-mart batteries for years now just of the
reason that they seem to hold up pretty well and if I have a problem I
can just swap them with no hassle.� I will probably start a flame war
but the batteries I take out and junk the most are Die Hard the irony of
which is not lost on me :-)� They should be renamed Die Easy and I when
I see one in a van now I automatically cringe.� Thanks for the tip on
looking at the build date, I would have never thought of that.
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It depends on where you live and which Wal-Mart store you go to. Not all are created equal. it took me� trips to 4 different Wal-marts to finally get a battery replaced that was bad the first month I purchased it. 
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In Stockton , California, the sales clerk attached a expensive looking tester to it whicxh printed� a read-out saying my battery was OK. 
They told me that since they got this tester three months earlier, they did not have to excahnge or refund for any batteries. 
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The next two Wal-Marts used the same tester and told me the battery was OK. 
No amount of expalining to them it had a bad cell would change their mind-their stupid tester is now the final authority. 
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The last Wal-Mart passed it, used a hydrometer, and it had a bad cell.This Wal-mart had a ASE tech who knew how to properly test batteries.
Even though I brought the battery in a discharged state, their tester would say "it needs a charge". The battery was fully dead within a week. Once I had to get a jump in a Wal-Mart parking lot with this battery. 
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I will never buy a Wal-mart battery again.
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Robert
1982 Westfalia

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