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You've gone there, or you just searched via the Intersate website?
I did the search and it says Fred Meyer in Bellingham sells them but when I was there I never saw any....

One of my friend's bought from Foreign Auto Clinic a few years back. On a personal level, I never bought from them. I just ponied up and bought one locally because my battery was dead (non-Intersate.) Whether it was cheaper than other places, I don't know because it was a friend's shop and I wasn't interested in wheeling and dealing with them.

Regardless, do your due diligence and call the shops in advance to ensure they have what you are looking for in store or can get it for you before you go down to find they don't have what you're looking for (but I'm sure you knew that already.) :hotbaby:

i dunno what this is exactly called but I have a question about this type of battery.
back home in asia before I moved here almost all cars on the road used this type where people would just re-fill the battery acid when the battery dies and it always worked as good as new after the re-fill

what are u guy's experience with this? are there any places that does re-fills here and if so around how much should i expect? I'm wondering because my jdm car came with this and I'm just curious if I should re-fill or just buy the standard non-refillable batteries here..

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Ask for Bob at Toyo Motors in Richmond.

The Interstate battery (model MTP-24) I bought died after 18 months of usage. To make matters worse, I bought it from Interstate's own All Battery Center on east Broadway which is now out of business! To make a long story short, called up Interstate Distribution Center in Langley and they were absolutely no help to me. Called up Toyo Motors (after calling 10 other Interstate dealers that were unwilling/unable to help) and they basically picked up Interstate's slack as a distributor and diagnosed/warrantied my battery. One other thing, while he was photocopying my original invoice he noticed that he sells the battery for $20 less that what I paid.

Yikes, that sounds discouraging......:heckno:
This Bob fellow sounds like one heck of a guy though.

You can try topping up the battery with distiller water. Most batteries these days are sealed. I'd give it a try and see where you stand.

Interstate Batteries are manufactured Johnson Controls, which is one of the largest manufacturers of automotive batteries and more. Unfortunately, some (not all) Interstate batteries will suffer from some level of quality control. There could be a number of reasons his battery failed (we don't know the full story) however, I would not hesitate to buy another Interstate battery as they have been good to me.

You can refill with distilled water. However be careful not to go over the fill lines, as it will short out the cells.

With our weather I rather go with an AGM battery that I don't need to refill.

wow i thought u guys were joking at first when u said fill it with water :heckno:
just never thought it would work since ive always seen guys refill with battery acid 100% of the time

like how exactly would distilled water do the work that the battery acid does?:suspicious:

^ its actually a mixture of sulphuric acid and water in the batteries.
Just looked through my old automotive textbook and you ideally want 35% sulphuric acid to
65% water.

what you need is a interstate battery mega-tron plus. 6 year warranty. 140$ done.

Your current battery may be salvageable though... have you looked at popping the fill caps and seeing if its low in water? Fill it up with distilled water and recharge it... it might be good for another year or 2.