You need to know which starter you have and which alternator. The droid at Sears (nice droids, but droids nonetheless) knows nothing about your car. Try Napa, and tell them how many amps your alternator is rated for. Also tell them whether you have the stock starter or the mini-starter. Bring your old battery with you so they get the right shape and size, plus you will pay no core charge going out the door and save yourself a trip back. The biggest drain on your battery is starting the car. If you drive your Imperial in winter, it's even more of a drain. You need lots of cold cranking amps, especially with the stock starter. I recently put a 650 CCA battery in my lesser Mopar (still a big block), and it's just barely good enough in our fine northern California weather. -- David "jsadowski" <jsadowski@xxxxxxx> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: cc: mailing-list-owner@imper Subject: IML: Battery Shopping ialclub.com 05/19/2005 07:25 PM Please respond to mailing-list I'm just curious when the time comes that you need a new battery for your Imperial how you decide which one to buy. For example, you go to Sears & you see all sorts of price ranges & sizes of batteries on the shelf. You tell the clerk what year Imperial its for & they look it up. You think they are going over to the largest battery they have. Probably not. The one they usually want to sell you looks like it was made for a small car with no power accessories. Do you go with this, or simply state you want the largest battery with top posts that they make? John ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm