Battery enclosure ?

[NikFu S.]

Anyone use one of these?


I'm not sure what the deal is exactly or how it's happening, but my battery is perpetually wet and the corrosion keeps spreading. My driver's turn signal just started having issues and I'm looking at all the chaos in that area right now and I'm just like UGH. Have to start isolating things.

How am I supposed to diagnose electrical problems when my battery is starting it's own alkali stalagmite farm.

Just looking for a recommendation for a good batter enclosure / case / box, and maybe some direction as to why my front left turn signal only comes on if I have the stereo on and only after turning the headlights on.
Also if I put the hazards on the climate buttons will intermittently blink. Just when I started to feel good about the car because it didn't stall all day, this stuff happens.

update: blinker situation seems to have corrected itself for the time being.

(I realize the attached pictures say battery "terminal" rather than "tie", but the positive terminal has been fighting corrosion for a long time and it just about overwhelmed and that's what I was thinking about when I named them.)

[michael]

Superglue a penny next to each battery terminal. It won't stop the buildup but it will give the stuff a place to focus on rather than your tie down.

[dcarrb]

Cover the bottom of that tie down cross-piece with a layer or two of cut-to-fit rubber gasket material, and clean the top of the battery regularly with tap water.

dcb

[92snowmachine]

it could be your battery has become sulfated due to being down on charge and never getting a full charge cylce. you can clean it off, leave the key on to drain it all the way, then use a high amp charger to fully charge (slightly overcharged) to charge it. this tends to work when a battery begins to gas out but not always. if you get an enclosure it will just allow all that nastiness to build up under the battery.

[NikFu S.]

Originally Posted by 92snowmachine

if you get an enclosure it will just allow all that nastiness to build up under the battery.

Better than it spreading to my horns and up the side of the fender. :/

I really don't want to have to clean the battery every day, so I'm just going to replace it and get an enclosure so that in the event this happens again it will be a little more controlled.

The way things are looking though with my PS pump exploding this morning I may be getting another car sooner than I bargained for...

[LastSVXintheChi]

Originally Posted by NikFu S.

Better than it spreading to my horns and up the side of the fender. :/

I really don't want to have to clean the battery every day, so I'm just going to replace it and get an enclosure so that in the event this happens again it will be a little more controlled.

The way things are looking though with my PS pump exploding this morning I may be getting another car sooner than I bargained for...

i have a PS pump if you need one

[Hocrest]

Get a voltage meter and check voltage at the battery. Off, idle and cruising RPM's.