Interstate Battery

[pfrederi 19,050]

Picked up an Interstate SP-350  (L@G 300 CCA) battery this morning....Made in Vietnam 

[ri702bill 10,187]

Welcome to the world of Global Sourcing & regional Low-cost Providers. Thems is Buzzwords from my days being under the Corporate Thumb!!

[ri702bill 10,187]

1 hour ago, pfrederi said:

Interstate SP-350

Intercontinental SP-350???

[lynnmor 8,127]

1 hour ago, pfrederi said:

Picked up an Interstate SP-350  (L@G 300 CCA) battery this morning....Made in Vietnam 

Just another bit of evidence that Interstate batteries are no better than any other low end product.

[Mike'sHorseBarn 3,362]

2 minutes ago, lynnmor said:

Just another bit of evidence that Interstate batteries are no better than any other low end product.

 

The price would say otherwise though wouldn't it lol

[lynnmor 8,127]

2 hours ago, Mike'sHorseBarn said:

 

The price would say otherwise though wouldn't it lol

As long as folks think that paying more buys you more they can get away with it.  Prices are set by what the market will bear, not by actual value.

[JoeM 9,008]

I pretty much buy batteries on price, Wally World or Rural King are the least money. And when I keep them on a tender, some are now over five years. 

I did have one from Auto Zone in the truck, had to get it on the QT. Just about the time the warranty went out, it was out. 3 1/2 years. 

Interstate was a top dog at one time but probably no more. 

Napa just cost more and are no better.

My neighbor kid's Dad drove delivery for Napa. The kid was getting good used batteries for core money. His Dad said there are some people that change out their batteries before winter as a precaution. More money than brains. 

[Handy Don 14,818]

34 minutes ago, lynnmor said:

Prices are set by what the market will bear, not by actual value.

Learned that in college -- lots (and lots) of years ago! It’s had a lot of names, but “value pricing” (cough, cough) has been around for a long time.

[JimSraj 556]

We have a Deka outlet only 15 minutes away. He sells ‘blems’ (functionally fine but blems in the case or lettering). Usually good pricing and they seem to last as long as any others. 

[953 nut 62,500]

4 hours ago, pfrederi said:

.Made in Vietnam

Some manufacturing is being moved from China to other nearby countries to avoid tariffs,    or they may be made in China and labeled in Vietnam. Lots of battery manufacturing move to Mexico in the 90s.

[adsm08 3,679]

1 hour ago, JoeM said:

I pretty much buy batteries on price, Wally World or Rural King are the least money. And when I keep them on a tender, some are now over five years. 

I did have one from Auto Zone in the truck, had to get it on the QT. Just about the time the warranty went out, it was out. 3 1/2 years. 

Interstate was a top dog at one time but probably no more. 

Napa just cost more and are no better.

My neighbor kid's Dad drove delivery for Napa. The kid was getting good used batteries for core money. His Dad said there are some people that change out their batteries before winter as a precaution. More money than brains. 

 

When I worked at Advance if any of us had a dead or weak battery we would go through the core pile with the tester looking for one that was at least close enough to what we needed and would pass a test. Then we swapped it for our dead one. In three years nobody I worked with ever bought a battery. We changed them a few times a year, bit we never bought one.