Quote Originally Posted by PoisonIvy View Post
Battery's 'months' are usually just their prorated warranty period. Personally I'd just stick the brand new, maintenance free battery in and be done with it. $115 is pretty good insurance against it stranding you somewhere. The damage may already be done and like EAD15 pointed out, you probably used tap water.
Just to let all know. After letting the car sit for 3 hrs. after running it for 25 mins, with the battery 'filled', with distilled water. always have it here for my orchids...., it was worse than ever! It made the classic 'click,click,click' sound, while trying to start it. But it also was making that classic 'run down sound' at the same time, you know, the sound it makes just before it makes the clicking noise. Boy adding water to it did nothing, made it worse!!

I put in the new one, and it runs perfectly. I did notice something....that it has more cold cranking amps than 'normal', like 650?, instead of the needed 550? Which to me is something I wanted to do anyway. But this was the only size battery WalMart had, that fit the car, it is so small. According to the 'battery book', this was the only one that fit the car. I wanted to put in a stronger than needed battery, but when I asked the 'bright guy' at the auto dept. for a more expensive/stronger batter, he said, 'this is the only one we gots'... having a slightly stronger battery isnt going to blow anything up, or screw up the computers is it?