Re: IML: Batteries

["Rob P" <fristpenny@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Funny you guys have trouble with Sears.  I went to my local Sears to get a 
battery for my 'cuda that had been sitting.  I was prepared for them to try 
and give me one of those teeny batteries, but the book showed the big top 
post Die Hard.  Group 27 I think.  That was May 1996.  I used it for the 
summer, would disconnect the battery on Labor Day.  On Memorial Day I'd 
charge it, hook it up and drive the car for the summer.  From 2001 it just 
sat.  In June '04 I got my '82 Imperial, stuck it in and it has been 
flawless through this miserable winter and a hard starting problem that has 
killed two starters has only drained to the point of being unable to start 
the car once.

I guess it's like Champion spark plugs some people love them and some people 
don't.   I've had Interstate batteries and they are fine too, I really just 
buy what's on sale.  My understanding is the big price difference is 
primarily the warranty not any difference in quality.

Rob

> From: "Klebert L. Hall" <swampyankee@xxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: IML: Batteries
> Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 04:33:36 -0400
>
> >From: "jsadowski" <jsadowski@xxxxxxx>
> >Subject: IML: Battery Shopping
> >
> >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
>
>    I go to my long-time mechanic, and he puts a great honking Interstate
> MegaTron in it. Usually winds up being an 850cca unit, but sometimes it's a
> 940cca (I think). I never have any trouble with them. I used to use great
> big Die-Hards, but I've found they're fragile - once they get drained flat 
> a
> couple times, they're all done.
>    -Kle
>    '69 Crown 4DHT
>
>
>
>
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