Looking to buy new battery local tomorrow

[sxk122]

I had a voltmeter and a A/F gauge in the last car. The voltmeter warned me when my alternator was about to/ did take a crap.

[SPETSNAZ]

Caution!, The Autozone is a non-AGM and neither is the Mazda one.
I have pics somewhere of the one that exploded in my trunk.
No warning, just hit the key and BOOM!...Hawaii Five-O style and in my garage to boot.
Scared the schit out of me!

OOO'Reily has the AGM, and its cheaper than 'Zone.

I had GM battery Boom on me in my Tahoe 10 years ago with $800 bucks of damage under the hood. Optima is the only way.

[JuanoTejano]

You guys are scaring me! I just picked up a vato zone duralast to hold me over till the red top comes in the mail, they didn't have it in stock, This thing had better not blow up before I get the red top or I'm gonna be pissed.

[Radio-Active]

It won't. It usually takes years for that to occur.

[channelmaniac]

It won't. It usually takes years for that to occur.

Yup.

The batteries have this empty space between the bottom of the plates and the bottom of the case for bits and pieces to flake off those plates. When it gets enough to reach the bottom of the plate then disaster is around the corner.

When it gets enough to reach the bottom of 2 plates then you have a short which could be bad enough to make it burst violently, spraying acid around everywhere.

[JuanoTejano]

That's good, like I said this will only be on until the redtop comes in the mail.

[trickyrix]

I've never had a battery blow up on me, and I've run all kinds of ghetto Wal-Mart/Vato-Zone/Shade-Tree brands. Right now I'm running an O'Reilly's AGM battery that I picked up before Hallett last year.