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Sears has 12Ft Die Hard Gold 175A 8 Gauge Car Booster Cable for $8.99 with free store pick-up. Please add item to cart to see discounted price. Thanks Anime
Please note, additional 10% off discount is valid until 02/20/13 7AM CST.
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12Ft Die Hard Gold 175A 8 Gauge Car Booster Cable $9 + Free Store Pickup (expired)
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SEARS has the Die Hard 12ft 175A 8 Gauge Booster Cables [sears.com] for $9.99 (Reg $34.99) + tax.
Add to cart, final price should show as just $8.99 with extra 10% discount through 7AM CST 2/20/2013.
In-store pickup is free, or shipping is free with SYW Max or trial.
Decent quality cables to throw in the car for $10, better than nothing. Definitely better than being stranded, having people in other cars willing to give you a jump, but no cables.
Product Description
8 Gauge Booster Cable Helps You Jump Start Your Car
12ft. Booster Cable from Die Hard provides you with what you need to jump start your car or truck. When your battery needs a jump start, you want to have a booster cable that you can rely on to get your vehicle started and you back on the road. This yellow and black booster cable has 8 gauge copper clad aluminum wire that is combined with a terminal biting jaw design to provide excellent quality and performance.
8 Gauge Booster Cable is 175 amp rated and 12 feet long for maximum convenience. It performs well in front-to-front hookups for vehicle jump starting. No matter what the weather is like, this booster cable can help get your vehicle up and running again. The biting jaw design features a copper plated jaw that is designed to offer you the best conductivity and power transfer. The terminal biting clamps also include a heavy duty spring to give you vise-like gripping power.
• 12ft. Booster Cable is a great length for front-to-front hookup availability.
• The standard amp handling power easily handles 175 amps.
• Terminal biting clamps and heavy duty spring are combined for a vice-like grip.
• Jaws are copper plated to offer the best conductivity and power transfer available.
• Polarity identification is easy with these color coded cables so that you can quickly get the job done.
• Vinyl coated clamps are protected against rust and corrosion and designed to last.
• The 8 gauge copper clad aluminum wire provides excellent performance every time.
In-store pickup is free, or shipping is free with SYW Max or trial.
Decent quality cables to throw in the car for $10, better than nothing. Definitely better than being stranded, having people in other cars willing to give you a jump, but no cables.
Product Description
8 Gauge Booster Cable Helps You Jump Start Your Car
12ft. Booster Cable from Die Hard provides you with what you need to jump start your car or truck. When your battery needs a jump start, you want to have a booster cable that you can rely on to get your vehicle started and you back on the road. This yellow and black booster cable has 8 gauge copper clad aluminum wire that is combined with a terminal biting jaw design to provide excellent quality and performance.
8 Gauge Booster Cable is 175 amp rated and 12 feet long for maximum convenience. It performs well in front-to-front hookups for vehicle jump starting. No matter what the weather is like, this booster cable can help get your vehicle up and running again. The biting jaw design features a copper plated jaw that is designed to offer you the best conductivity and power transfer. The terminal biting clamps also include a heavy duty spring to give you vise-like gripping power.
• 12ft. Booster Cable is a great length for front-to-front hookup availability.
• The standard amp handling power easily handles 175 amps.
• Terminal biting clamps and heavy duty spring are combined for a vice-like grip.
• Jaws are copper plated to offer the best conductivity and power transfer available.
• Polarity identification is easy with these color coded cables so that you can quickly get the job done.
• Vinyl coated clamps are protected against rust and corrosion and designed to last.
• The 8 gauge copper clad aluminum wire provides excellent performance every time.
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BEWARE: These must be picked up in the auto center. While "Merchandize pickup" is most likely open until 9PM Mon-Sat and 6PM Sun, auto center pickup may close at 6PM and may be closed on Sun...
Also, as many have stated, these are thin (the larger the gauge number, the thinner the wire), short, and not copper, so I would consider these only if these are all you can afford. Still definitely better than nothing in an emergency.
One more beware: my Sears Auto doesn't set the item aside for you. They just grab it off the rack when you get there. So, if the item sells out, you're out of luck. They give you back the money, but can't give back your time.
In general, if you try to pick up something in the regular Merchandise pickup area, they may not even show the order. If that happens, try the auto-center. Happened to me on a hand-held 12-volt air pump used to blow up air mattresses - I did not even think it was an auto-center item.
Also, as many have stated, these are thin (the larger the gauge number, the thinner the wire), short, and not copper, so I would consider these only if these are all you can afford. Still definitely better than nothing in an emergency.
One more beware: my Sears Auto doesn't set the item aside for you. They just grab it off the rack when you get there. So, if the item sells out, you're out of luck. They give you back the money, but can't give back your time.
In general, if you try to pick up something in the regular Merchandise pickup area, they may not even show the order. If that happens, try the auto-center. Happened to me on a hand-held 12-volt air pump used to blow up air mattresses - I did not even think it was an auto-center item.
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Despite that, will wait for >>8' and copper.
- The cables are only 12 feet - if a newer car is completely dead in the garage you usually can't even put it into Neutral to roll the car back (since the electronic lockout won't let you shift gears - I'm not a car guy so I don't know a way around this except for maybe using a booster battery), so forget trying to jump it if you can't get another car in front or next to the dead car with these cables
- The cables are aluminum instead of copper, if you are trying starts in colder weather or have a more demanding engine you may not be able to pull enough current
- The cables are only 8 gauge. This is sufficient for a start, but the cables will get warm with just one attempt. If you try to crank 5 or 6 times you better wear gloves as they may be very hot.
If you're going to throw these in your trunk it will add weight to your car (yes a very small amount), but with gas at $810/gallon here in SoCal give or take no need to haul useless crap. If you can't see yourself being able to start your car with these no point in getting them.
I have 2 pairs of cheap jumpers like these in other family members cars and they do work most of the time but they are a pain and not nearly as safe. I have a nice pair of 4 guage copper 25 foot ones and using those is a breeze and a lot safer.
Buying a good pair of cables $40-$60 may very well save your life (keeping you from getting shocked, not tripping on cables that are taught while on the side of a road, etc. Then again if you're stupid no cable is going to keep you from killing yourself.
• Jaws are copper plated to offer the best conductivity and power transfer available.
• The 8 gauge copper clad aluminum wire provides excellent performance every time."
...Umm, I think not. More likely:
• Jaws are copper plated to offer the illusion or even fool/trick less discerning customers into believing these are fully copper jumper cables
Not knocking the deal. It's within a couple dollars of where it should be. But man do I miss the old days before metal prices skyrocketed.
4Guage copper longer lengths on sale for $19.99 - bygones.
i knew this was garbage, I have 9 gauge pure copper ground wire , that wouls have less resistence then this aluminum crap.
For 10 bucks it is what i consider a normal price.
I agree 4 gauge pure copper jumper cables are the only way to go.
these days for the price of copper being so high you are better off getting a battery jumper /booster box with the proper amperage and cranking power for your engine. 4 cylinder needs a lot less then a 6 or 8 cylinder.
I have had one i bought in 1995 for my 6 cylinder astrovan, that still work today, i think it has 850 cold crak amps, which is swall but it has saved me at least 10 times, if not more. No other car needed, no jumpers, just open hood and clmap its jumpers on and crank and go. sometimes you need to let it sit for 5 minutes, also make sure your connections, especially ground are rock solid. Turn off all your overhead lights radio a/c heater , and it has jumped batteries where the dome light was left on overnight, many times. Back around 1995 the tow truck guys were using them when you called for a jump., so much easier than playing with jumpers and alinement of vehicles.
The one i have from 1995 still works and has held a charge for a month, so far, as i just recharged it after i tie wrapped and duct tapped it together and made some new insulated areas for the clamps. It has fallen off the engine area more than a couple times. When i see a nice one on sale for around $60 , i will make sure i rig a dummy cord that will use a carabinner to hold the new one from falling from the area that it is being jumped. A piece of parachute cord would work fine as a dummy cord. The car i have now is a 4cylinder, so i actually need less cold cranking amps,but i would still get a good size one, for a larger car , just in case i need to help someone out. Get the right size for your car, my neighbor showed me theirs, it was small, and they have a 6 or 8 cylinder car. It was the wrong size, they don't understand amps and such.
dont mistake one of those emergency auto air compressor, flash light, radio and nose picker boxes they always have in the stores,those are good to have to blow up your" life like quadruple orifice inflatable love doll"... whoops ... i mean beach balls and air mattresses, car tires , if it is high volume low pressure, If you want to pump up bicycle tires, wheel chair tires you need low volume high pressure .
they looked at me like a devil.
In general, Sears has gone down the toilet. Their products and customer service are not up to their own standards of just ten years ago. No wonder they're going bankrupt, and aren't expected to survive a couple more years. I predict they'll sell their name and survive only as Sears.com, and be like a Craigslist/eBay site.
Bye bye Sears!
they looked at me like a devil.
Clearly, I was favorably impressed.
Copper/aluminum; no matter. The cables just sit in the trunk; get used once a year to start the yard tractor.
Come think of it, I wondered why I had to buy NEW cables.
I had some frightfully expensive, greater gauge, pure copper cables... and one of the clamps broke!
For use once a year.... perfect!