On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:32:43 -0500, Mike Romain >
wrote:
>You just caught on to one of the best scams going there!
Quite by accident I assure you ;0
>I know a gent that goes to all the used car lots and buys all the dead
>maintenance free batteries, tops them up, puts a deep charge in them and
>sells them back for $25.00 with a 1 year warranty. He said he almost
>never has a warranty claim.
I'm sure there are tons of good stuff tossed away because of a planned
obsolescence life-cycle, not because of *defective goods.*
Sure, if you don't add water to a lead-acid battery, unless it's gel
or AGM, it's going to go bad much sooner than it needs to.
I might have just caught this thing in time. It's on a 2003 and I
should really be able to run it another 3 years!
Of course I live up North, and heat isn't as much as a problem here as
it is down south, so I can expect longer battery life, but shorter
auto body life, what with the salt on the roads in the winter.
I wish it would warm up around here already. I want to get under the
car and go after the obvious rust before it gets any worse. They sell
these hand-held sand-blasting guns now, no larger than a paint
sprayer. I'll use that and a can of rustoleum for a starter.
No sense in keeping an engine alive if the body is gonna fall apart.
Lg
>Mike
>86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>
>Lawrence Glickman wrote:
>>
>> While I was making mischief out in the garage today, I popped off the
>> top of my maintenance-free battery, and discovered that the
>> electrolyte level was DOWN TO THE TOP OF THE PLATES.
>>
>> I topped up with a goodly amount of distilled water, a lot of
>> distilled water, until I got a meniscus at the bottom of the level
>> indicator slots.
>>
>> Just a Heads Up !
>>
>> Lg
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