02-15-2007, 09:59 AM
[quote Racer X]or a huge pothole, or having the battery clamp pounded on. Exide did some testing back in the early '90s. They tested something like 10,000 failed batteries, and over 9000 of them showed signs of damage to one or both posts, or the connecting strap between the post and the plates, or both.
That's why they even make a tool so you don't need to pound them on. You open them up.
or you take the bolt out, and open them up with a big screwdriver, and put the bolt back in.
I'm just saying that since I personally sold about a thousand batteries in that 4 years, I may have learned a bit about batteries, and their failure modes.
I can remember a time when we would jump start a dead car battery remove the cables and the car would run until and if it stalled. There was no auxillary drain for other functions, you could run that old 50 or 60 something until it ran out of gas.
That's how old I am.
That's why they even make a tool so you don't need to pound them on. You open them up.
or you take the bolt out, and open them up with a big screwdriver, and put the bolt back in.
I'm just saying that since I personally sold about a thousand batteries in that 4 years, I may have learned a bit about batteries, and their failure modes.
I can remember a time when we would jump start a dead car battery remove the cables and the car would run until and if it stalled. There was no auxillary drain for other functions, you could run that old 50 or 60 something until it ran out of gas.
That's how old I am.