CAFE standards... rolled back

[Uncle Gump]

They sure don't make a typical 12 volt automotive battery worth a damn anymore.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

They sure don't make a typical 12 volt automotive battery worth a damn anymore.

I wonder if battery manufacturers branched into battery maintainers? Then it would make sense to make sub-par batteries...


Do I need a tinfoil hat?

 

[Uncle Gump]

I wonder if battery manufacturers branched into battery maintainers? Then it would make sense to make sub-par batteries...


Do I need a tinfoil hat?

Their strategy worked on me...

 

[scotts90ranger]

I saw one theory on that being where batteries are made and possibly like those videos you see with barefoot people cutting the top off batteries and mixing up used plates and rebranding them... not to mention there hasn't been any domestically mined lead for like 30 years now so they're probably not refining the scrap lead very well... and knowing this country they probably outlawed something that made batteries last longer like using a subpar acid or something...

 

[sgtsandman]

Flood lead acid batteries are certainly not made as well as they used to be. Why is up to specilation. It could be the recycling of old material, lower quality manufacturing and materials, and intetional lower quality to increase sales. It may even be a combination of all three.

Batteries are still lasting to about the end of the warranty they come with but seem to be lasting no longer than that. Finding a battery with more than a three year warranty is also becoming a rare thing. Of the three vehicles I take care of, only one had a battery available at a parts store with a five year warranty. With the other two, one could only get a maximum of three years no matter where I looked.

Getting a battery to last more than the warranty seems to be a thing of the past. Everyone I just replaced, died at about the end of it's warranty period and it appears to have been the same the last time I replaced them before this.

 

[JohnnyO]

They would be stupid if they did, it wouldn't take much for a future administration to flip the switch back the other way.

That's why we need Congress to pass the REINS Act. It's been floating around Capitol Hill for a decade.
Basically any regulation that costs over $100 million would have to be voted on by Congress.