Cars are not my forte....especially mechanical issues and backing up in driveways. On Wednesday, after finding my car dead I jumped it, and left work going straight to Autozone. They tested my battery, and said it was at 96%, At this point, I began to wonder if maybe i did leave something on, and thats all this was. I made it home, and a few hours later used the car with no problem.
At 7:30 on Thursday I went to start the car with some trepidation, and sure enough, nothing. My roommate jumped me, and he tested the alternator which checked out fine. So I went to work. An hour after arriving, I went to my car and tried starting it. No problem. Five hours later, a little problem, but it still started. When I went to leave, it was dead again. Another jump, (and another technique to do it) and I made it to Wal-Mart. I bought a new battery, and in the 10 minutes that took, my car was dead again. You see where I'm going here, another jump (I took my roommates cables that morning, figuring I'd need them.) From Wal-Mart it was back to Autozone. they tested the battery again, this time it came back as toast. And sure enough, even though I had just driven twenty minutes, after being parked for 5, it was another jump. Then to the house.
After the LSAT class, I went to switch the batteries. The old one was so corrroded. The one time I've switched a car battery before, (last summer on the great white hope) it took ten minutes. This time, it was an agonizing 80 minutes. Everything was so corroded and the screws stripped. It was the original battery (15 years isn't too shabby.)
And this morning, no problems at all. Sometimes its the little things in life. Haven't ever been consciously grateful for a working battery before. Always taken it for granted. No mas. Thanks for the advice and support. I was almost looking on KSL for a horse, so its good this is now taken care of.
Love to everyone,
Hunter
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