Napa Legend AGM ... Clarios manufactured?
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Not sure what the labeling requirements are or if there is any enforcement.
I sent them a message yesterday. I haven't heard back and I doubt they will reply.
f355spider
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It would be unusual if the battery is from Clarios. Whether sold by Walmart, Interstate/Costco or AC Delco (all Clarios retailers), I have always seen some sort of sticker or labeling identifying the country of origin.
Some members here cruise the motor oil aisles to see what the state of the market is. There's a devoted following who cut open oil filters, and track their evolution as they change designs, suppliers, or whatever.
I happen to do the same with batteries, and believe me, what the website shows and what is on the rack in the store do not correspond to each other a lot of the time.
There are millions of auto parts in the various systems, and even if a company was conscientious, not cheap, and desired to devote resources to keeping their every facet of their catalog up-to-date, it would be a difficult and time-consuming task.
From my experience, NAPA has a website not because they want to be at the forefront of the retail auto parts business, but because they would look hopelessly outdated if they didn't. It's clunky, in my experience the promotions don't always work, and in general, a mediocre at best. At best. The counter people, even at a good store, tolerate the online orders, but give the impression that it's a foreign order system that they have to deal with, not embrace.
I wouldn't rely on it for gospel, especially for a category of fungible goods, not unlike the produce section in your supermarket, where an orange is an orange, a potato is a potato, and the stock clerk just dumps whatever are in the boxes the trucks delivered that week into the bins.
You may raise the discrepancy with NAPA, and they might actually care and do something about it, but most people wouldn't notice, or give it a second thought.
Dontcha recall your post about dueling labels? Including an allusion to no COO labels at all?
When I look up an H6 AGM battery on NAPA it says "East Penn or Clarios" for manufacturer.
I have bought a group 27 marine AGM battery at NAPA and it was East Penn.
Now I live in DE
So it seems both NAPA and Walmart have East Penn on the East Coast and Clarios on West Coast. Or maybe just a coincidence?
Have you considered moving? I mean getting an East Penn battery is one of the more important things in life!!
Ha Ha NAPA, actually changed their website after I sent them that semi-irate message through their website on Thursday! That’s hilarious
. Here is a picture of the message confirmation from NAPA sent to my email.It said just East Penn before. Now it says EP or clarios. Well BITOG, I guess we know who made this battery I got.
I could have ordered an H6 Deka intimidator AGM from Rockauto.com for ~ $200. NAPA is local and they’ve never done me wrong or misrepresented an item before so I didn’t mind paying a few extra bucks to get it from them.
I think I’m going to return this battery and order the Deka.
f355spider
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I think you misunderstood my comment about Interstate labels without a COO on the label. My point was most Interstate labels do not have a COO, it is instead a separate sticker. This label that included "Made in Korea" was a new thing, and it additionally, was placed OVER the separate "Made in Germany" label.
Interstate is just a marketing brand. Their website indicates they source their batteries from Clarios and some from Exide.
Update.
Returned the Napa legend (clarios) battery to Napa.
Ordered a Deka intimidator (East Penn). label says made in the USA. It’s all good!
Returned the Napa legend (clarios) battery to Napa.
Ordered a Deka intimidator (East Penn). label says made in the USA. It’s all good!
Where did you order the Deka battery from?
Rockauto.com
What do you do with the core? It's worth $18. Is shipping more than that?
I would guess it’s more than $18 because it weighs 50#. I think I can get $10 store credit at AAP for the core which is probably what I’ll do.
RockAuto sometimes provides cheap core return shipping if you purchase the shipping through them.
I was not aware you could get a core charge from bringing in a battery to a store when you did not buy the battery there.
A scrap yard will give you $$.
It's probably the state required core charge and will depend on the state.
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