Easily Protect Your Battery from Early Death
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Easily Protect Your Battery from Early Death
A cooked battery will simply get extra charging from the alternator - no problem. But the car charging system can not compensate for one only cooked cell!
SLK's have a FIREWALL to keep engine heat away from the whole battery when you park the car with a hot engine. YES! But not Crossfires!
Inside my dying battery I could see that ONLY the FRONT CELL was ALL WHITE from sulphation due to repeated self-discharge caused by parked engine heat reaching the front cell.
******I have now wedged a wad of white cortell wadding (out of a speaker box) in front of my new battery.******
PS: The only cure for one flat cell would have been to drill through the top plastic into the first metal link, and charge only that front cell - I lacked the courage to drill.
Please heat-insulate your battery asap !
SLK's have a FIREWALL to keep engine heat away from the whole battery when you park the car with a hot engine. YES! But not Crossfires!
Inside my dying battery I could see that ONLY the FRONT CELL was ALL WHITE from sulphation due to repeated self-discharge caused by parked engine heat reaching the front cell.
******I have now wedged a wad of white cortell wadding (out of a speaker box) in front of my new battery.******
PS: The only cure for one flat cell would have been to drill through the top plastic into the first metal link, and charge only that front cell - I lacked the courage to drill.
Please heat-insulate your battery asap !
Last edited by jiminnz; Jun 11, 2009 at 04:26 PM.
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Re: Easily Protect Your Battery from Early Death
Originally Posted by jiminnz
A cooked battery will simply get extra charging from the alternator - no problem. But the car charging system can not compensate for one only cooked cell!
SLK's have a FIREWALL to keep engine heat away from the whole battery when you park the car with a hot engine. YES! But not Crossfires!
Inside my dying battery I could see that ONLY the FRONT CELL was ALL WHITE from sulphation due to repeated self-discharge caused by parked engine heat reaching the front cell.
******I have now wedged a wad of white cortell wadding (out of a speaker box) in front of my new battery.******
PS: The only cure for one flat cell would have been to drill through the top plastic into the first metal link, and charge only that front cell - I lacked the courage to drill.
Please heat-insulate your battery asap !
SLK's have a FIREWALL to keep engine heat away from the whole battery when you park the car with a hot engine. YES! But not Crossfires!
Inside my dying battery I could see that ONLY the FRONT CELL was ALL WHITE from sulphation due to repeated self-discharge caused by parked engine heat reaching the front cell.
******I have now wedged a wad of white cortell wadding (out of a speaker box) in front of my new battery.******
PS: The only cure for one flat cell would have been to drill through the top plastic into the first metal link, and charge only that front cell - I lacked the courage to drill.
Please heat-insulate your battery asap !
Chrysler found that putting the battery in the trunk gave an average of 8 months extra life to the battery.
Last edited by onehundred80; Jun 26, 2009 at 09:03 PM.
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