[widebody911]

I don't think this battery phenom is limited to NTB. I tried to buy a battery for my M3 @ Kragen, which is really O'Reilly now. The first battery he brought out looked nothing like the battery I needed. The 2nd looked like the battery I needed, but appeared to have been hiding in the back room since the cretaceous period. I asked him how long they'd been sitting on that battery; "it came in a couple weeks ago" ORLY? Test it! Sure enough, it was dead, and I mean dead! Like 3v. I got the "let me charge it up for an hour" spiel, and he offered to knock $10 off. Nope. I went down the street to AutoZone - same thing: the first battery was dead as a doornail, but the 2nd one worked. It's even worse when trying to buy 6v batteries OTC; on top of that, you're lucky if the counter-jockey has even heard of a 6v battery. I've had a parts monkey tell me there was no such thing as a 6v battery, despite the fact that I had a 6v core in my hot little hands.