I replaced the old battery because the car basically sat all winter, leaking oil into the street. When I had the oil leak fixed, they dropped in a new battery (the last one was about 4 years old). Car ran fine, but I had the "quick blinker". My garage jumped the car yesterday, checked the "new" battery, and found out it had a bad cell. Replaced the "new" battery, and everything is fine. He checked the alternator and siad it was putting out 16 volts (I think? can't remember what the exact number was) but he said the alternator was in good shape. I'll keep checking the volts, hopefully I just got a bad battery. He said these things happen.
I did get a quart of the blinker fluid, but can't find where to fill the reserve tank. There's no mention of blinker fluid in the manual either. Did I mention this car has a manual transmission? Would that make a difference?
Thanks,
KeithD