

| 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.
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