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i feel bad
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i feel bad
out of no where my car wont start, a couple of clicks then nothing, just like a battery thats got nothing left, but the battery is only 1 year old, but has a 2 year warranty, so i take it back ang get a replacement, and the car fires right up. so i take it for a spin down to the central post office to check my mail, and perfect! there is a park right out front. do my things and come back to the car and it wont unlock (brief panic then i realise i have this thing called a key) unlock the car and its completly dead, i fiddle with things under the hood for quite some time, during this time a crowd of about 20 street kids has amassed around my car , everyone likes to see a so called rich dude with his flash sports car broken down, they have all got their phones out taking pics and videoing, asking smart assed questions. anyway i jiggle something and powers back on. drive staight home ang get ready for some major surgory on the battery area and find a lot of blue/white stuff on the negative lead, i pull back the plastic and scrape it off(it was quite stuborn). good as new. feel really bad about complaining about the old battery.
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Clean each of the cables, negative and positive with Arm and Hammer Soda. ( I make a solution in a plastic cup and soak each end in the solution.) This will neutralize the acid. Dry each cable end totally dry. Then attach to the battery. You can cover the outside of the cable end with vaseline and it will keep the water and acid off of the metal.
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"Soda" in the Coke Classic
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Most likely the "soda" in the Coke Classic neutralizes the acid on the battery cables. Not as elegant as using Baking Soda in the first place. I would rather use Baking Soda and drink the Coke while watching the Baking Soda dissolve the battery acid. Better yet, a Heffiewizen Beer would be a much superior prescribed refreshment.
Next time I need to work on my car, I'm calling "Ryan's Daddy Dan-Na" .... he has the RIGHT attitude (and answers) to the problem .....
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Hope you're enjoying the cooler winters .....
I've got some buddies in Strongsville (So. of Cleveland) and I'll be out next weekend for the Cleveland Champ Car race ... should be a blast ... just sorry they're not running at Mid-Ohio any more ... that is a BEAUTIFUL track ... for both drivers and spectators.
I've got some buddies in Strongsville (So. of Cleveland) and I'll be out next weekend for the Cleveland Champ Car race ... should be a blast ... just sorry they're not running at Mid-Ohio any more ... that is a BEAUTIFUL track ... for both drivers and spectators.
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Hope you're enjoying the cooler winters .....
I've got some buddies in Strongsville (So. of Cleveland) and I'll be out next weekend for the Cleveland Champ Car race ... should be a blast ... just sorry they're not running at Mid-Ohio any more ... that is a BEAUTIFUL track ... for both drivers and spectators.
I've got some buddies in Strongsville (So. of Cleveland) and I'll be out next weekend for the Cleveland Champ Car race ... should be a blast ... just sorry they're not running at Mid-Ohio any more ... that is a BEAUTIFUL track ... for both drivers and spectators.
(And yes, I hate winter up here even though my little area of the state doesn't get as much snow in recent years as surounding areas.)
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MAKE SURE YOU ONLY USE 11 FT-LBS, overtorquing the side terminal batteries is the number one cause of them leaking acid. If it leaks, your car's computer is directly below it.