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To: gg cox who wrote (70605)	10/13/2008 7:15:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Thanks GG. Your 14.4 volt figure was right. After testing what I could, I decided it was new battery time and sure enough, the car is happy again. I suppose nearly 5 years is reasonable for a car battery. But I opted for fewer amp hours because batteries have zoomed in price since I last bought one. Lead must have zoomed in price. I had a little click around cyberspace and there is all the information one could want. Maybe Google could have done the diagnosis for me if I put a Camry identification in [if Camry had a wireless connection to cyberspace - hmm, flat battery would have been a problem but easily fixed with a booster battery]. Proper diagnosis, real-time, would have predicted failure and taken me to a fix it place. QCOM's mobile cyberspace will enable such things - there is OnStar onstar.com Mqurice