Valvoline on Merchant's lied about dead battery

Well the mother of my kids takes our '99 Honda CRX to Valvoline's "Instant Oil Change" center on the corner of Merchants Rd. today and the guy tells her "I don't know how long it'll last" after one of the guys in the pit says "it's dead." Oh really? We had the battery replaced within the past year... Yes, there was a lot of corrosion. But it is practically new and NOT the one that came with the car.

So we took it to Battery Masters and it pinged as GOOD. That's the second time Battery Masters have treated us right, and the first time we have caught Valvoline in a lie. But if you've ever been there you know they use pressure/scare tactics to get you to add on hundreds of dollars in services, clearly preying on the ill-informed and incapable.

In our case we use them (or USED as we won't be going back) out of convenience as I don't have the time to do this myself. Oh well, I guess another business wants our money -- and they'll get it. Watch out for these scam artists.