Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles - hp internal release 1.2; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hp-pcd!jrf From: jrf@hp-pcd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Re: Die Hard batteries die young (on Message-ID: <2400038@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 12:00:00 EST Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.2400038 Posted: Fri Mar 9 12:00:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Mar-84 06:59:54 EST References: <503@abnjh.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Portable Computer Division - Corvallis, OR Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:abnjh:-50300:hp-pcd:2400038:000:796 Nf-From: hp-pcd!jrf Mar 15 09:00:00 1984 I've also received good service from John Charles Pinot (J.C. Penny, stateside) batteries; purchased one for $49 in 1978 with a lifetime warranty, drove about 75,000 and had them give me a new one (battery dead), now have driven another 75,000 miles without need of further replacement. The car is still going strongso they will be seeing me again. An interesting fact is that these first batteries had the warranty written on the battery, so anyone brandishing said battery will get a replacement *with- out* a receipt. (That's why the new ones do not have the warranty on the battery - they issue a lifetime warranty card now). Certainly, I am not suggesting dishonesty, just be aware that these old batteries are worth about a hundred bucks (current price of new lifetime battery).