'88 5kcstq, dead battery now

[Lawrence C Leung]

I went to WalMart and bought the appropriate sized (42?) Champion
Battery. $39, and it's held up quite well, including one complete
discharge when my altenator finally quit and I couldn't see the warning
light due to the low sun angle. According to a recent Consumer's Report
article, most of the batteries performed reasonably about the same, so
the factors that they said matters is manufacture date, and price. 

LOL, 

LL - NY

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:39:54 -0800 Wolff <wolff at turboquattro.com> writes:
>Big heads up on batteries:
>The Sears Die Hard which sells for $110 and supposedly fits the type 
>44 ...
>doesn't. The holddown ledge on the bottom is too thin vertically. 
>Turns out
>Kragen now carries the battery that was the "Die Hard" and Sears is 
>now
>using a different manufacturer. I got a battery from Kragen that 
>exactly
>matched my old die hard, right down to the mold flashing. Plus it was 
>only
>$57. I actually was going to put an Autobahn battery in, but it was a
>special order item at my dealer.
>Wolff
>