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Old 08-18-2022, 05:44 PM   #40 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary View Post
The third party battery is a still a big, "what-if?" As Ecky said, they're as good as their warranty. Bumblebee might be ok, I have no idea, but aren't that much cheaper than an OEM battery that will last at least another 15 years.

As for $70 for some random brand module, that's just crazy as you either buy a few and start the whack-a-mole process or you buy all 28 modules for more than a true, brand-new battery from a Toyota Dealer.
Honda's OEM batteries stopped being from the original supplier after 2010ish, and became hardly better than aftermarket - probably because they used the same cheap Chinese cells, because the original Japanese ones simply did not exist anymore. After another 5 years there simply wasn't an OEM battery to purchase, period.
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