Back in the late 80's I worked for Pep Boys and they sold batteries made by Exide. We had lots of problems with them.
Later on in life I worked for Kragen auto parts who also sold Exide batteries. We had so many problems with them that we had a 4x4x4 stack of returns every week!
No fast forward to February of last year. I aquired another Peterbilt as a parts truck. After I got it home I found that it had 3 brand new Exide batteries in it.
The date code on them was 2-07. I thought this was a great score.
I took the "reconditioned" batteries out that did not give me any problems and put the new Exides in my truck.
Now every 6 weeks I have to pull the cables off and clean the terminals. The Exides are leaking between the plastic case and the terminal on 2 of them.
Now I know that overcharging a battery will make gasses that will cause this problem. Truck does not over charge and I had no problems with the old batteries.
So far I have smeared silicone on the area where the posts go through the plastic case thinking that it may seal the area. Then I tried grease. Nothing will stop the gasses from corroding the cables!
6 weeks ago I bought new cables and cleaned the entire area up with baking soda/ water and cleaned it up with a brush.. Today I pop the battery box lid off and find the posta all corroded green.
Rant off.
Later on in life I worked for Kragen auto parts who also sold Exide batteries. We had so many problems with them that we had a 4x4x4 stack of returns every week!
No fast forward to February of last year. I aquired another Peterbilt as a parts truck. After I got it home I found that it had 3 brand new Exide batteries in it.
The date code on them was 2-07. I thought this was a great score.
I took the "reconditioned" batteries out that did not give me any problems and put the new Exides in my truck.
Now every 6 weeks I have to pull the cables off and clean the terminals. The Exides are leaking between the plastic case and the terminal on 2 of them.
Now I know that overcharging a battery will make gasses that will cause this problem. Truck does not over charge and I had no problems with the old batteries.
So far I have smeared silicone on the area where the posts go through the plastic case thinking that it may seal the area. Then I tried grease. Nothing will stop the gasses from corroding the cables!
6 weeks ago I bought new cables and cleaned the entire area up with baking soda/ water and cleaned it up with a brush.. Today I pop the battery box lid off and find the posta all corroded green.
Rant off.