The continuing saga of trying to get my Regal to stop stalling: Part 2

"mcseanerson" (mcseanerson) 11/02/2015 at 20:19 • Filed to: None

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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and read through my trials of retrieving my battery from the abyss that is the small corner of the engine bay it was banished to.

This is where I carry on to Part 2: the search for more money juice.

I got the battery home around 10 pm last night with my car resting in the back of the wal-mart parking lot. I have an 8 amp charger that I bought the last time I was working on my car that I was going to use to charge the battery this time around. The problem is I forgot the terminals in the car and had nothing to connect the charger with. I tried to jerry rig a couple random bolts just to see if it would work and it was a no go.

I decided I would have the wife drive me into work and we’d stop by oreilly’s in the morning to see if they could test/charge the battery. I had a good idea what to expect but I keep hoping one of these guys will actually charge my battery. I take it in and after waiting 10 minutes to be talked to I ask him to test it and he fires up the computer and quickly kicks out an alarm with a report that the battery is bad. I said ok and bought a 2 pack of terminals with him reassuring me the battery is definitely dead.

Flash forward 11 hours and I finally get home to hook up the battery and it instantly begins charging. I have a sneaking suspicion this will be an ongoing series of posts.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > mcseanerson 11/02/2015 at 20:30

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GM side post batteries: still THE DEVIL. Most THE DEVIL when equipped in twin-battery diesels, because then they have a rubber-packaged double-stack connector idiocy of pure acid filth-collecting hate on one battery’s positive lead.

mcseanerson > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/02/2015 at 20:33

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Well I just checked on it again and now it looks like it is fully charged in about an hour’s time. This does not bode well.

Birddog > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/02/2015 at 20:55

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Aestheticly the side posts are awesome. Unfortunately, nobody ever looks under the hood and says “Nice battery terminals!”