A new battery for the El Camino is $175 AFTER the prorated price?
I guess I've turned into an old man. I remember when a battery for something like that would have been $50 or 75 for a "really good one".
I just checked the O'Reilly website for an '85 El Camino w/305. Prices range from $89 -> $229 (and that's not Optimas or anything fancy).
But I notice that it's a side terminal and possibly an odd group, 75.
Batteries for my Boxster which are pretty large and AGM, run $199 -> $259.
I generally get the top of the pile because the cheap batteries tend to die young.
Somehow $200 - 260 for a Porsche battery that's an AGM seems more reasonably than $90-230 for an '85 El Camino.
It does suck when they die like that. I've had a few instances of "drives the car, and try to restart it 60, 15, 5 mins later and nothing". I've had it so bad that the dome lights and dash lights wouldn't even light. And it sucks. I like it when you notice that it starts lagging a bit.
At least it wasn't beastly, and you were able to get it fixed up and running again fairly easily. It's probably a lot easier than in the Macan.
I hate dealing with cars where the battery is buried under a bunch of crap, like body brackets and that sort of thing. It should be one nut or bolt for the hold down and the 2 terminal/cables.