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Originally Posted by mpolli
Try another dealer if you can. Some are more reasonable than others. Even in Canadian dollars 230 is pretty high for that. I think my limit would be about 130 USD. They are good batteries, but not 230 CAD good, IMHO.
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I ended up going with a $100 AC Delco. It actually has more CCA than the OEM one and a longer warranty as well. While the battery dimensions match, the AC Delco doesn't tighten down with the factory clamp as it doesn't have that bottom lip around the base like the OEM one had. I will have to think of a workaround for the time being. The battery tray is quite large. Even the old battery from Mercedes didn't fill it all in. Believe it or not the receipt for the Mercedes battery from early 2002 had a list price of $134. Hard to believe it could go climb in price so much!