recent under-seat battery experience?

[Larry C Leung]

I've had luck with the Champions sold at Wal-Mart, which do have the
vent, but, as you said, not in stock. There may be a suitable Interstate
(usually at tire stores I've seen) and secondarily, I'd consider the Die
Hard (Sears) which were middle rank in Consumer Reports. If I recall CR,
most batteries performed about the same, so they said that the most
important factor was the date of manufacture of the battery (don't recall
how to read that though). 

LL - NY

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:47:09 -0600 Henry A Harper III
<hah at alumni.rice.edu> writes:
>
>Haudi,
>
>What's the latest good place to get a suitable externally vented group 
>41 
>battery for type 44? The Kmart "Penske" which has been sitting 
>comfortably 
>under my back seat for three years is now flat and not taking a charge 
>from the 
>good alternator (0.15V between battery +ive and jumpstart post with 
>engine 
>running, 13.65 vs 13.8). Walmart, Fred Meyer, the Kmart I visited last 
>night 
>around 10pm were all out of stock or not carrying. Might try a 
>different Kmart, 
>then will have to go FLAPS. Brands to avoid?
>
>TIA,
>Henry Harper
>http://www.mindspring.com/~hah3   hah at alumni.rice.edu
>1991 200 quattro, 112k, holding some vacuum in the A/C but will 
>probably wait 
>for super stopleak stuff to arrive before going so far as charging 
>with 
>AutoFrost
>1988 GTI 16v, 222k, parts runner and also in need of super stopleak 
>for A/C