SH> My batterry is new as is my car.  But there are a lot of people out there
 SH> who drive older cars and for whom buying a new battery could be a
 SH> hardship.

Well, if they don't give priority to buy a new battery they have to walk.
And you can't be that poor so you can't afford to buy a new.
Having a car IS expensive. My rear brake-discs must be changed and that
will cost me 10 000 SEK, about 1020 USD and I had to have new winter tyres
and summer tyres since I used to have allyear tyres and to the summer tyres
I must have new rims. This was another 17 000 SEK, 1 735 USD.
I have a Chevy S 10 4 WD.
And if I want to drive saftly this is what I have to pay so if I only had to pay for
a new battery I would have been glad.

//Bj”rn

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