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Subject:Re: Good Source for Aux Batteries
From:Tom Buese
Date:Thu, 9 Jun 2011 15:53:15 -0600

So which battery will fit under the drivers seat?

Mr. BZ-yellow top Optima still going strong after 6 years, but you never know

On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Loren Busch wrote:

> I just ran into a kind of different source for buying Trojan batteries.  For
> info, there are two brands of batteries that are considered by most to be
> the best on the market: Trojan and Rolls-Surete.  The Rolls battereis are
> very, very high priced.  The Trojan batteries are generally considered as
> good but less cost.  The time had come to replace my aux battery, it had
> lasted for four years (and had been badly abused) and would not longer hold
> a charge.  When it was first installed I'd wanted a Trojan but Trojan
> dealers have become hard to find around Seattle for some reason.  And the
> only local source I found appeared to be a wholesale distributor only. Some
> browsing on the Internet found this site:
> <http://www.hodgsoncorp.com/products/trojan.htm>
> so I read what they had to say and emailed for a quote.  The quote came back
> way, way below what I had seen quoted for the same Trojan battery.  So I
> called and placed the order.  Today I went to the local (in south Seattle)
> distributor and picked it up.  The savings were substantial especially since
> I didn't have to pay local sales tax.
> And BTW, the local source where I picked the battery up was the source I'd
> found online, Battery Systems in Seattle.  And it turns out they are a
> retailer also.  Their service was excellent (carried in the old core and
> carried out and dropped in place the new battery) and they were very
> professional about it.  Even though they were fulfilling an order for
> another dealer and when asked said they couldn't have matched the price.
> So, for those of you in an area that has a cooperating local distributor,
> you might check out the prices through Hodgson Distributors expecially if
> looking for Trojan batteries.