Re: Battery Info 90 200TQW, Interstate

[ekellock@juno.com]

I found an Interstate battery, but even with the right one, they required
that an additional vent tube kit be bought.  It was closing in on a
hundred bux and I passed.  Went over to Advance Auto and bought a battery
for 46.00.   It had a provision for a vent tube and has been fine.  This
was on the 200.

Ed Kellock
Greenville, SC  USA
91 V8q 5-speed
87 Coupe GT
91 200q Avant, in limbo

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:25:57 -0700 "Perry, Chris" <perryc@wdni.com>
writes:
>I just purchased a new 100 month battery from GI Joe's here in 
>Washington
>State.  It has the vent tubes on both sides.  I paid 59.99 USD for it. 
> It
>is a group 41 with 760 CCA at 0 F and 850 CCA at 32 F. They told me 
>that
>their house brand (the name of which I can't remember right now) is
>manufactured by Exide.   This was for a 1989 90q.
>
>HTH,
>chris perry
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	David Ritter [SMTP:dritter@mich.com]
>> Sent:	Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:58 PM
>> To:	quattro@audifans.com
>> Subject:	Battery Info 90 200TQW, Interstate
>> 
>> Hello,
>> Just following up my own post from earlier.
>> The Interstate people don't seem to do well with the special 
>batteries 
>> needed by the 200. I spent a good bit of time today making phone 
>calls 
>> to try and clarify which was the correct part number.
>> I called a local dealer who looked up a number which was MT-91. I
>> questioned whether or not this one had a vent tube plugin. They 
>didn't 
>> know, as it wasn't in stock anyway, and would have to discuss it 
>with
>> the distributor.
>> I got bored and decided to call Interstate directly. They seemed to
>> be interested in helping at the customer service level, but when I
>> needed to ask about specific features (vent tube), things got worse. 
>I 
>> found from customer service that the part number I should be looking
>> for was MTP-91. I was transfered to Techical service at which point
>> his voice mail picked up the phone, and I gave up. I hate waiting a
>> week for a call back when I need an answer today. I'd prefer a busy
>> signal to voice mail any day.
>> I got in touch with my local dealer and he had spoken with his
>> distributor and claimed that the MTP-91 was superceded with the
>> MB-66. To further complicate the situation, they couldn't get me one
>> of those till next week either.
>> The next step was a trip to another local dealer for interstate
>> batteries. Arriving there I found the MB-66 sitting on the shelf,
>> however it was short a few CCA's from what I had previously in the
>> car. The MB-66 was only rated for 550 and was a significantly 
>smaller
>> battery than the Autobahn 650CCA battery I needed to replace.
>> 
>> Finally I had to buy a non-vent tube battery, as a proper one just 
>wasn't 
>> in the cards this time. I did buy an interstate, a MT-41 which has 
>the 
>> 650CCA's that I wanted, and the same size as the correct battery.
>> 
>> I live in hickville, and sometimes its difficult to do anything
>> quickly. If I didn't need the car running today, I might have waited
>> for something else to be ordered.
>> 
>> The problem is, now I am probably exposing the lock pump and
>> other electronic goodies under the seat to excessive acid fumes.
>> 
>> David

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