oldretiredafguy
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Just changed out the battery in our 2016 Yukon. Did the standard thing and bought a new NAPA AGM 94R, same size as the battery in the vehicle. Didn't realize you have to not only remove the rear cross brace, but also remove the overflow tank. To get the overflow tank out you have to remove the air box, and also move the front cross brace. I would sure like to get ahold of the GM engineering group that allowed this POS design. Then the old came out and the new one in. Took my mechanic 45 minutes to do this, as at my age I can't even lift the battery. Took the core back to NAPA, and as the counter guy was moving the core out of the front foot well, I commented about how much of a PITA it is to change the battery. THEN he tells me that a lot of people, including his commercial Tahoe customers, are using a size 48 battery. Not quite as long or as wide or as tall as the 94, and you don't have to diassemble half the frapping engine compartment to change it out.