So once again, my battery has died. Being now 3 years or persistent driving, my first battery lived 1 year, the second 2, and now here comes the third. With the increasingly connectedness of the world through the Internet I've balked at the $80-$90 price tag for a new one and looked at cheaper options. This is what I found: batteries online! Well, it seems great and all that the batteries are more than 1/2 the price at the dealers, but the one I bought was dry--no battery acid. Don't get me wrong, I knew it from the description, called up my local Checker Auto Parts store, and the guy told me, "Sure we carry that. $6.00 should get you what you need." The battery has now been delivered, and today I went to get the sulfuric acid. I went to Checker and they said and they hauled a car battery sized box, "$18.97." "What?!" I asked them for a smaller box and they said they had none.
I went home and looked at my useless battery which now seemed to laugh at me. "This fight is not yet over!" I thought to myself. The next thing I did was call 5 or so local motorcycle shops as per the guaranteed solution I received from some online question and answer page. None carried it! Finally, good 'ole Napa Auto Parts had 1 in stock for $13.00. So here I am, spent $31.00 on a
battery, $13.00 on acid, and still have the exciting work to fill the battery's tiny holes without spilling and burning my hands or a hole in the cement.
One of the shops told me that battery acid is becoming very hard to find nowadays as batteries are now "closed." "Makes it more enviornmentally friendly" another motorcycle shop lady said with much irritation to my environmental ignorance.
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