STILL ALIVE! AutoCraft Gold Car Battery w/7 year warranty $40-45 WITH TAX INSTALLED AC/MIR/CB at Advance Auto

NOTES:

1) yes, this is for most size batteries, even ones for trucks/suv's, BUT NOT ALL, most!!

2) IF YOU GET THE BATTERY INSTALLED FOR FREE, you get a refund of your $12 CORE CHARGE!!! this will make the final price as low as $30 COMPLETE with tax!!! if charged tax on the core charge, make sure that is refunded too.

you only get back the core charge if you get it swapped out (installed), not carry out.

12.00 core charge is added at purchase and then refunded if old battery is returned. Best you can do is break even, not gain 12.00

Never heard of a core for a battery. Must be something new.
They do give you $5 for your old battery.
more info here

NotAClue said:   Never heard of a core for a battery. Must be something new.
They do give you $5 for your old battery.
more info here

not sure that the offers stack, you may get the $5 OR the core charge refunded-- (that's my guess anyway)

NotAClue said:   HERE - Page 8 Kind of confusing because there they also state something about a core return. I bought a battery there a couple years ago and there was no core. Maybe it depends on which battery?


MISTERCHEAP said:   NotAClue said:   They also give you $5 for your old battery.

in addition to the core charge? do you have a link to that policy?

yeah "not applicable to core returns", so you can't get both the $5 gc AND the $12 refunded. that's how I read it.

I just recently took advantage of this deal. My battery cost $10 more than Mr.Cheap's example due to car requirement. Overall I think this is an excellent deal!
A new battery with adequate cold cranking amps will serve you well in the upcoming winter.

Good dear.

Nice deal, submitted a $25 rebate for a Gold battery I bought 2 weeks ago! Thanks OP!

From my experience some stores do take old batteries for $5 but only if the want/need to. You could always go up to their stores and check if they have used batteries for sale as well. I know for a fact they are not allowed to send back("recycle") batteries that test good. So they charge/use/sell those.

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Has anyone ever gotten a full rebate refund when using these 30% to 40% off codes? I'm very curious as to if they don't weasel their way out of giving anything at all.

pumasniper00 said:   From my experience some stores do take old batteries for $5 but only if the want/need to. You could always go up to their stores and check if they have used batteries for sale as well. I know for a fact they are not allowed to send back("recycle") batteries that test good. So they charge/use/sell those.

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Has anyone ever gotten a full rebate refund when using these 30% to 40% off codes? I'm very curious as to if they don't weasel their way out of giving anything at all.

you get the full rebate.

a) What a timely post - my battery was dead yesterday morning.

b) What bad luck that I have an uncommon battery that retails for $147. Unfortunately, the discount and rebate won't bring it down below the sales price for a similar battery at a local store. I would have loved to have spent only $40 or so since I am not going to be keeping my car for much longer.

Tried stacking coupon codes NVB5 (15% off plus $25 gift card) and DOTW45 (30/40/50% off - from another post here) and while it accepted those codes, it didn't give me anything above the initial $40 off.

Use shopDiscover for 10% CB plus 5% more for online shopping (if you have Discover Card).

I bought one even though I don't need one at this moment. Can I just put the battery on a shelf for next year or more, anyone knows the answer?

rcglfr said:   DirtCheap said:   Use shopDiscover for 10% CB plus 5% more for online shopping (if you have Discover Card).

I bought one even though I don't need one at this moment. Can I just put the battery on a shelf for next year or more, anyone knows the answer?

You might have to put a charge on it after a year, but other than that it should be fine.a lead acid battery is not something you want to just store for a year or more. if the voltage drops below 10.5v or so it will cause permanent damage. you need to keep the battery charged. search "lead acid battery" for more info. here's one link for info

this is a good deal but it was actually a better deal a few days ago....Monday I was on the verge of buying and noticed that when adding batteries to cart they were already "on sale" about 10 to 12% off the initial price displayed on the webpage, but that discount isn't being shown today...not sure why or exactly how long they were "on sale"....but still a good deal!

jimbocobb said:   this is a good deal but it was actually a better deal a few days ago....Monday I was on the verge of buying and noticed that when adding batteries to cart they were already "on sale" about 10 to 12% off the initial price displayed on the webpage, but that discount isn't being shown today...not sure why or exactly how long they were "on sale"....but still a good deal!

actually, this may still be better,

because the $40 off coupon requires a purchase of $110+, that savings may have bumped you back to the $20 off level coupon unless you wanted to buy more items to get up to $110. So in essence, your OOP would still be similar, although, you could have picked up an extra $10-15 in goods if that sale were on.

DirtCheap said:   Use shopDiscover for 10% CB plus 5% more for online shopping (if you have Discover Card).

Just re-ordered the same item with Discover CB.... that's even more savings. Used A124, which is a legit Discover CB discount code. Thanks! Remember, on top of the 10% CB, there is 5% all online purchases this quarter.

@#$&! I just bought a new battery from Advance Auto in Sep, and spent close to $120. Too bad my battery couldn't have waited until yesterday to die.

Thanks - got a new Group 34 Gold battery for $60, after rebate. We were already in the market (just not urgent yet) for a battery and the combination of coupon and rebate makes the battery cost comparable to the WM price for a longer warranty. My family has had good experiences with the WM ones both in cars and boats, but this was a timely deal.

argentum said:   My 2 cars' battery are both about 6 years old and both still goes very strong, and clean too. However, with such a nice deal, I easily decided to get new ones for them. I will save the new batteries in my garage to wait for the old ones to die.
Not a good idea. Battery will degrade unless it is kept charged. Even then, there is a life expectancy so just switch out the old ones and put the new one in.