AC Delco, Oct 2024 ?...

[Oatmeal]

Hello everyone, I bought this for our 2018 Chevy trax back in Oct 2024, and left the Trax set in the yard a couple weeks and went to start it and move it and it wouldn't start, so I tried to jump it over didn't help, so i took the battery out of the car to hook it up and charge it up, looks good on the charging meter but volt meter shows 11.87v in battery, hoping it will charge back up.......now this battery, when I bought it, says on the sticker on the battery has a 42 month free replacement, this mean they will replace it for free if won't hold a charge ?.....

Have never had a problem like this out of a battery this early in it's life, it was built in September 2024......

Also, my 1st time buying someother battery than a Sears Diehard battery, in over 30 years......

 

[JayhawkRoy]

I would take it back to place of purchase with receipt and invoke the 42 month warranty. There may be a proration involved. I haven't bought an AC Delco battery in a long time.

 

[Furious]

Bring the battery back to where you bought it from to find out.

Sears/Advance Auto DieHard batteries are made by Clarios which also manufactures AC Delco batteries, this is why I save my money and buy Walmart EverStart Maxx which is also made by Clarios and costs a lot less $140 vs $215.

So for future reference, save your money and don't buy a battery because it says "Diehard" or "AC Delco" on it because there is nothing special about those batteries compared to Walmart EverStart Maxx.

These lead acid batteries today are not made as good as they used to be made.

 

[oldcodger]

Agree with Furious. I have never had bad service from a Walmart battery.

 

[Oatmeal]

Wow, how things have changed, had no idea what you all are saying about the above mentioned batteries........

I always ran a Sears made Diehard battery, but since they sold the NAME to Advance, and Johnson and Johnson builds that battery now, I won't buy them anymore....

That's why when my battery went bad in this car I went to AC Delco, because that's the same kinda battery that was in the car too, and we got 6 years out of it.....I bought this AC Delco from the local Chevy dealer, and you think of that, lol, that's bad getting a battery doing this from them.........
Oh well, if I can get my money back I'll get one from Walmart, thanks, good info....

 

[Oatmeal]

Here is a update on this car battery......

I bought the battery from a dealer, cost and install was 234.00 bucks, ....ok during this time I got rid of the car due to a blown head gasket, I still had the battery during this same time found out the battery wouldn't hold charge, so when I got a hold of the dealer I bought it from, they wouldn't warranty the battery because it wasn't in the car I bought it for......

So, now I still have this battery, and still won't charge up, what do you all suggest, or can I get this fixed and use it or is it junk now ?..

Never had a problem with a car battery like this I sure do mise the old Die Hard batteries that Sears used to build.....

 

[Selmorides]

I had two AC Delco batteries last nine years. Both came from GM dealerships, not retail stores. One was a dual post for the Tempest, the other was a warranty replacement on my one year old Saturn. The Saturn was on the lot about four months before I bought it. It probably discharged from sitting and had to be jumped. A dead battery ages quickly. I worked at a couple Chevy dealerships. One moved product around so inventory always looked organized. The other only moved product when it sold or it was in the way. They were jump starting cars almost every day. I only buy East Penn batteries now.