[Corley]

If you have never had a battery explode, you have missed an important lesson. Luckily, the one I had explode was under the hood of a car, and the hood was closed. I was standing next to it when my wife hit the starter, and BOOM! The hood sort of lifted a bit, and acid was everywhere. Took the battery to Wards, where I had just bought it the day before, and they said it was not covered under warrantee, because ALL battery issues turned out to be alternator problems. I showed the manager the area where the internal connector from one cell to the other had a big arc'd area, (bad connection), and convinced him (with the help of one of there "mechanics") that it was a faulty battery. The car never really recoverred from rust issues, even with massive rinsing, and the garage floor was permanently stained a light brown. AND, I never bought another battery from Wards.