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make her ride one of the horses.
I noticed some corrosion on the battery posts of my wifes Expedition and decided to take it in for an electrical system check...It turns out the battery was going bad and that this has become very common with the newer cars...with all the computers, sensors, and all the electrical devices the cars are really stressing the batteries and my mechanic is seeing a lot of corroded battery posts which if not taken care of then "infects" the cables...the corrosion then travels down the cable inside the insulation and starts knocking out sensors and computers...even if it doesn't knock them out it can cause voltage variations that make your car not run right because sensors are giving the main computer funky data.
And you cant' just replace a battery cable anymore...it's a complete wiring harness that hooks up to everything...on my Expedition it costs THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS and the labor to install is another TWO HUNDRED!
Just a heads up to you guys to keep those battery terminals clean...It's not like the old days where we could replace a $5 cable and be back in business.
make her ride one of the horses.
A little water and baking soda.
or coke
or vinegar
that wasn't the problem, it was the symptom...the battery was putting out 10.3 volts
A little vaseline on the posts every couple of months helps too.
Buy the pack of grease at the auto parts store and smear that on your terminals.
you might want to delete this part.
Naaa I don't use Vaseline on that post since S y turned me on to Astroglide.
if you need lube somethin' ain't being done right
S ey is a very smart woman!!!I sure do miss her!!!
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That just depends on what you are packing and where you are packing it...
Uh oh......you guys wait here, I'll go get the yardstick!!
Ah. Bringing up the rear. Then, yeah.
Real classy guys. Way to act mature. I swear sometimes the guys on here can make us all look bad. All you do is talk about sex, and gay stuff. Way to make this place seem trashy you guys.
I.Hustle talking "mature" smack. Now THAT'S funny.
What a role model!!!
I.Hustle talking "mature" smack. Now THAT'S funny.
This is very true.
Everything gets more expensive. Parts and labor on cars aren't something every back-yard mechanic can do anymore.
Now clean and efficient cars are an area of regulation that doesn't bother me, but people need to realize that it causes such extra expenses. It hurts the middle-class and poor more than those voting in the regulations. We could blame the auto makers, but they are doing it the least costly way they can for retail costs, in a very compe ive market.
So you had a dead cell. Another problem with newer cars. The computers require a battery with a high enough current capacity to maintain 10V or so while cranking, so the computer, injectors, etc. can still operate. Battery cells are made more dense, with more plates closer together. This increases the problems in batteries, and they don't last as long as with pre-computer cars.
Nice technical information by Cosmic & Wild Cobra…
Not to mention nowadays you have to be a computer science major to fix anything under the hood.
I forgot about this thread.
It smells like sex in here.
Not really. To me it's all simple control circuits. I work with such things on automation equipment daily at work. The systems aren't too hard to fix if you understand such things. Start with a code reader, and a volt meter then to check components for expected responses.
What a load of garbage. We're talking about the battery cables on a Ford Expedition here, are we not? That's got nothing to do with "clean and efficient"!
CC's problem arises out of disposability - today they build cars, and everything else, so that you have to replace entire subsystems or the whole product, rather than making things repairable like they used to be. This costs the consumer more money ($500 vs $5 in this case), the environment more resources (a cable vs the whole subsystem), and the economy repairman jobs. This is a great example of the downside of disposability/material throughput culture, a grand scam run on everyone by the manufacturers of the world to keep their sales flowing.
Also, it has been shown time and again that efficiency costs nothing if you regulate industry to do it properly. For example, since MEPS came in for fridges (first occurred in California in 1975), they have doubled in size and halved in price while using 75% less energy, which means 75% less ongoing operational cost for the owner. Inefficient anything ends up costing you far more in operational costs (ie. petrol, electricity, etc.) over the life of the product.
Last edited by RuffnReadyOzStyle; 01-28-2010 at 09:30 PM.
what if the car was neutered?
A richer takes in his wifes ride for corrosion on the battery terminal.
whats next? Low tire pressure? Oh no... I better get to midas right away!
I was exaggerating about being a computer science major. But like you stated, you are fimiliar with that sort of stuff since you deal with it daily at your work. For a guy like me when the mechanic tells me that the cpu is bad inside my vehicle, I just pretty much ask him how much. Thats a big plus if you can work on the cpu on your vehicle. Probably save boatloads of money too!
Corrosion is a symptom of a problem. I wanted to make sure the alternator was charging properly and it turned out the battery was going bad. I don't own the test equipment to check the electrical system. what exactly was wrong or strange about that?A richer takes in his wifes ride for corrosion on the battery terminal.
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