Author Topic: Replace battery or charge it? (Read 561 times)

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #15 on:** February 20, 2006, 05:55:10 AM »

what you guys are discussing is why you want to keep an unused battery topped off over the winter. A battery will rarely physically fail with just one discharge over a few hours.

Pooh21 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 20, 2006, 06:07:58 AM »

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Originally posted by rabbidrabbit
what you guys are discussing is why you want to keep an unused battery topped off over the winter. A battery will rarely physically fail with just one discharge over a few hours.

hmm I accidentally left the nightvision back up camera on over night, didnt affect the new battery one bit....

Hangtime · « **Reply #17 on:** February 20, 2006, 09:41:36 AM »

Standard lead/acid automotive batteries suffer some conditional damage on a full discharge. Gel types do a bit better. RV/Marine, Golf cart and other 'deep discharge' types survive a bit better in those circumstances.

Ripley & eagl nailed it... pump it up; see if it holds a charge. If so; yer golden. For now.

Meatwad · « **Reply #18 on:** February 20, 2006, 09:57:45 AM »

Had to get a new one, it wouldnt hardly hold a charge anymore.

eagl · « **Reply #19 on:** February 20, 2006, 10:00:52 AM »

Maybe your wife deliberately killed it 'cause you call her an idiot?

Hangtime · « **Reply #20 on:** February 20, 2006, 11:14:53 AM »

my wife got furious because I called the dash warning lights 'wife lights'.. after she smoked her second head gasket.

When she asked why, I just smiled sweetly and said, 'just being polite dear, and trying to do my part to promote your precious PC sensibilities.'

she then said 'what ARE you talking about??'

"dear, the little red lights used to be known as (shouted) 'IDIOT LIGHTS'."

eagl · « **Reply #21 on:** February 20, 2006, 11:23:56 AM »

Hah

My wife has killed 2 cars and killed the clutch on a third. One killed car and the clutch weren't really her fault though... Her idiot driving instructor waaay back almost 20 yrs ago taught her to keep her left foot "ready" by resting it lightly on the clutch pedal. Moron. I think that dude must have had family running a auto repair shop since there are few ways to kill a clutch faster than "resting" your foot on the clutch pedal all the time while driving. That one tidbit of instructional goodness cost me $100, and other techniques she learned in driving school cost her dad an engine.

My trans-am has over 115,000 miles on the original clutch even after 3 seasons worth of autox racing, and although it chatters a bit when starting off slowly when cold, it still engages predictably and doesn't slip.

But even though she killed another car by driving it for a week with the oil light on, I still wouldn't call her an idiot. I emphatically questioned her priorities

but she's not an idiot.