[DML] Re: Car Batteries

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the bad old days a battery could last 10 or more years. Going dead
just one time wouldn't kill it forever. Contemporary "sealed"
batteries aren't air tight -- that's the reason for those pads and
creams you're supposed to put on the terminals -- they just don't
allow you to replace the lost water.

Ask anyone who remembers and they will confirm that landfill
regulations have lowered battery quality. Good for the environment,
but harder on the end user.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Stephen Card" <stephen@xxxx> wrote:
> You don't consider the Optima (and now Exide's sealed Orbital 
> batteries)as improved? Sealed, spiral wound, shock/vibration 
> resistant, maintenance free. I think they even have some that fit 
> Lincoln's :)
> Stephen
> Vin 3601
> > 
> > The only consumables that haven't improved are batteries.
> >








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