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$5 Credit in June for Recycling an Old Car Battery (Supercheap Auto Club Membership Required) @ Supercheap Auto

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This deal should go down like a lead balloon.

Stop dumping or giving away your old car batteries. Or pick up an old one from your neighbour or kerbside pickup. Instead:

GET $5 CREDIT on your club account to use next month when you recycle with Supercheap Auto.

*See a Team Member for more details.
Offer ends 31 May 2023. T&C's apply

Take your used lead acid battery to any of our stores and see a team member to process the drop off on your club account. Next month you will be rewarded with $5 credit!
We are unable to accept any lithium battery.

Limit of 1x $5 battery recycling credit will be applied per month. Credit Valid for 28 days.

Terms: https://www.supercheapauto.com.au/on/demandware.static/-/Lib…

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  • +15
    • Thx for this

    • Awesome, ends 31/05 so will do an oil change before then.

      Cheers mate!

    • Great. I've got 3 bottles just sitting there.

    • -1

      Stuff that, my local recycling joint lets you pour out your oil and keep the containers.

    • +1

      Not every store takes used oil now. Even that ones that supposedly do the employees are so lazy they’ll find some excuse to turn you away. They no longer have the bins out front, you have to go into the store. I went to 3 supercheap stores on a Sunday once and the excuses were “we are full” “we can’t take anything bigger than 5L containers” and “we are not allowed to take them now”. Total waste of time.

      • Ours had to move the bin out back because some absolute deadshit tipped the oil straight in the skip bin. Poor employees have to walk all the way from the front to the back now. I've dropped off a 20L bottle filled to like 12L before and 2 5L at a time. They don't make excuses up.

  • +5

    Giving scrap lead free of charge

    • +3

      Are you positive?

    • -3

      It's crazy. I spilt my old car batteries open with an axe and put over the fire pit to melt it down, then I make lead stuff out if it

      • +1

        Be careful of the fumes mate lead as you know is pretty toxic.

        • +2

          Leads the least of your concern in this scenario.

        • Pretty sure pulling this kind of shit, the lead vapour has already done its work…

      • +1

        You do realise lead is proven to lower IQ? I hope you don't have children around

          • -2

            @wisdomtooth: Fluoride isn't that clear, there are many water sources that have fluoride in them which people have been using for generations with little ill effects.

            Nevertheless, Fluoride only benefits teeth when it directly interacts with the surface of bone, there is no benefit to add it to drinking water if you use toothpaste

  • +1

    Limit of 1x $5 battery recycling credit will be applied per month. Credit Valid for 28 days.

    • yeah, this is crap. For $5 I need to go in twice.
      Marketing team must have grinned their faces off coming up with this.

  • +1

    what's the going rate from a battery recycler? I think I remember getting about $5-10 per car battery, they recycle the acid to use for tanning leather I was told & the lead is valuable too

    • Dunno, I looked online locally and could find no details. FYI, the SCA page states:

      Simply take your used battery to any of our stores, and your lead acid battery will be recycled by Century Yuasa free of charge

    • +4

      Yeah you'll get about between $5-15 per battery at a recycler

      • +6

        Yep. I normally wait until I've got 10 batteries and sell them all to "my guy" for $100. He even picks them up. He also gives me between $150 and $270 for catalytic converters.

        • +2

          You should see if he gets old PC parts. My guy will give me $1 per kilo of HDDs (without platters). More money to be made if they're even more disassembled.

          I get a hundred or so every year that need to be destroyed.

    • +2

      I got $4.70 for my 14yr old battery. I then bought one of the other 'scrap' batteries for $12….which is where my original 14 yr old battery came from.

      Forgot to take a load tester. So just shorted the terminals and took a voltage reading. Battery was showing 12.55v when shorted….. Take my money….see you in 14 yrs!

      Was quite a few 12.5v + (fair chance they would all be fine).
      * Disclaimer - dont do this if you dont know what you are doing, might burn yourself or blow the battery up ..there will be sparks.

  • -6

    Damn just threw one in the bin a few weeks ago

    • +1

      The recycle bin or landfill?

      • -1

        Landfill

    • +2

      Landfill will pick them out for recycling, there's more than $5 in a car battery

  • Finally I got rid of my 6 year old OEM Ford stop-start battery that I replaced back in November with a Century.

    Credit gets applied on the first of each month apparently. Little bit annoying cos I just recycled my oil last month. Was hoping the credit would stack.

    • but you do get credit for both just you didn't do in same month?

      • Yeah should do

  • +1

    If I remember correctly Repco do $30 trade in if you are buying new battery and they will recycle.
    Not sure if they still have this

    • +1

      Yup just traded in my dead battery for $30 off last month.

  • Guys, is this valid for just car batteries or can I recycle a motorcycle battery and get credit too?

  • +5

    No thanks, I'll just keep throwing my car batteries into the ocean. It's safe and legal.

    • +6

      Recharge those electric eels.

  • +3

    Anything to get for $5 at Supercheap? 2 trips for $5 which seems not much comparing to JB's perk. Still good for recycling purposes

  • +3

    Used to be $10 how is this a bargain?

  • +5

    I sell them to my my scrappy for $12.50

  • +1

    Damn! I gave the dead battery away for free to SCA when I bought my Century battery from them.

  • -3

    Not a deal, based on this, this and that.

    • +1

      Neg not valid. Link to where a current Repco battery trade $ in is? 2nd one had no specifics. 3rd one could be either the user didn't buy when the offer was on or didn't ask.

      • -1

        The word of @eecchhoo, @Hirolol and @Rabidnz is good enough for me.

        • -1

          Logic isn't your thing then.

  • +1

    $5 Supercheap? They then turn around and makes double when they take to the metal recycles.

    2 weeks ago some scrap my 14yr old son had collected for pocket money we took to the metal recycling,

    1x Lawn mower battery $6,
    3x Standard car batteries $27,
    1x Larger 4x4 type batteries $14,
    2x larger damaged alloy car rims $36

    This was at a Sims metal recycling there are heaps all over we are in regional Victoria so due to transport costs we might get less than city prices.

    Metal prices supposedly go in cycles depending how urgent it is to fill ships for export though that info is about 15 years old how they operate may have changed.

    The only way metal, batteries etc ends up in landfill is if you hide it in your load of rubbish. Tips want your metal they can make good money.

    • I don't think they are making money. Why would they put limitations on you returning them if they are?

      • +1

        you would imagine they could make money on them however if they are going to the Century Yuasa recycling scheme then I doubt they are

  • used epsom salts on my sealed battery and lasted another 18 months. tried again and blockage somewhere. Was recommended to buy $13 sulfuric (sold at supercheap etc) as an option, as it doesn't eat amps. So clean with epsom salts + baking soda, rinse, then use the sulfuric + overnight charges. Very dangerous, so take appropriate safety and disposal procedures. Found a local seller for $60 new/remanned batts after all this…

  • I got $5 credit on 2/6/23 for recycling oil but not yet for the battery. Has anyone received both credits yet?

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