Quote from patrickreed on April 9, 2026, 9:56 am

I made the classic Dubai mistake of going away for the whole of August and leaving the Vette on a tender that apparently decided to stop working sometime around week two because I came back to a car that was deader than dead and the electronic door release wouldn't even pop so I had to use the manual key in the rear hatch like some kind of peasant just to crawl through and pull the door release cable in the dark which is an experience I never want to repeat, anyway I got it jumped and drove around for a bit but the battery is clearly on its last legs and I know these C7s are particular about the battery type because of the placement in the rear and the vent tube situation plus the carpet flap is a pain to work with if you don't know exactly where the hidden bolts are, I started looking for someone who actually knows Corvettes specifically instead of a generic battery van and I ended up on https://batteryzoneuae.com/corvette-battery-replacement/ which at least acknowledges that these cars have a specific AGM requirement and the whole hatch venting thing, but I'm still curious if anyone here with a C6 or C7 has actually used a mobile service that showed up with the right AC Delco or equivalent and didn't mangle the rear carpet clips in the process because I've seen some absolute hack jobs on the American forums where the installer just ripped the trim out and left it flapping around, just want this thing to start on the first press like it used to without any lingering electrical weirdness from a dying cell.