Why I like AutoZone......

[MYBAD79]

Driving my Mustang today..... Noticed my interior fan was running slow, noticed radio turned off...... Then noticed voltmeter at "zero" and batt light on...... Standing at a light..... Thinking "oh **** this is not good...."

Light finally tuned green, I make it thru the intersection, right after the intersection is a "Zone"...... I pull into the parking lot, go inside and ask the guy to check my battery and alternator.... Turns out the alternator died at a young age of 225000 miles..... RIP...... They had a alternator in stock and they let me use their tools to install it - which took about ten minutes......

So then the guy says I should charge the battery first and not run with a totally dead battery and possibly overload the new alternator.... Now how much of that is ******** ???

Anyways, he says it takes 30 min to charge my battery on their "quick charger" ..... I said "well, just give me a new battery, there's still six weeks warranty left on this one"..... No problem, got a new and freshly charged battery, no further ******** and was on my way..... Lol.....

 

[Red77]

Similar story, while on the way to the Zone several years ago, my voltage regulator on my old F-150 decided to take a crap and catch fire while waiting at a light. Really just smoldering and smoking at the light, but I was able to get to the Zone, my buddy ran in to get a fire extinguisher while I pulled off the battery cables. I wasn't going there to get anything for the truck at the time, but they had what I needed for the other project and I was able to fix my truck there too.

 

[7t9l82]

same here, driving past the zone in my 88 Lingenfelter trans am , alternator jumps ship. with only a pair of 426 channel locks i swapped it out right there. they thought the car was cool and charged up the battery for me. like you 10 min job, charging took longer.