Saw some fluid leak from battery
05-17-15, 12:27 PM
#1
Saw some fluid leak from battery
I saw some fluid leak from the battery a few weeks ago. Anything to worry about? You can see it from the picture below where there is some dust and the darker parts with fluid. The battery is about 2 years old and seems to be starting up fine.
06-21-15, 08:26 AM
#2
I just want to update this with that if you see this on your battery, you should clean it up with water mix with baking soda as soon as you can.
That picture was actually taken a couple months ago, and I posted here a month later. You can see there was no corrosion on the battery post and terminal, but now, the terminal has quite a bit of white corrosion build up. It's actually hard to clean, and I'll need to get one of those metal brushes. Also, one of the cells (the rightmost one where you see most of the acid seep out) has lower liquid level that I just refilled with distilled water.
That picture was actually taken a couple months ago, and I posted here a month later. You can see there was no corrosion on the battery post and terminal, but now, the terminal has quite a bit of white corrosion build up. It's actually hard to clean, and I'll need to get one of those metal brushes. Also, one of the cells (the rightmost one where you see most of the acid seep out) has lower liquid level that I just refilled with distilled water.
06-23-15, 01:03 PM
#3
You went about this correctly. If you're OCD about your car like me, you'll not want that corrosion to return. Bring over a Dremel with a wire wheel attachment and get everywhere that stiff brush just cannot get. As a result you should have a nice copper-looking connector there. 
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