On the weekends I usually start and run a couple of cars as they need to be started and run for about 10 minutes a week. One is my brother's car, a 2001 Hyundai Accent and one of my cars a 2001 Lexus GS 300. These two cars I don't drive that often, if not at all, but I do keep them running.
Well this morning I started the 2001 Lexus GS 300 right up no problem and ran it for 10 minutes while I was checking out songs and different stations on the radio.
Then I went over to my brother's 2001 Hyundai Accent, I turn the key and notice no lights at all. You know the check engine light and all the other lights, no sign of them, and I turn the key more and I just hear quite, nothing, not even the clicking sound with the battery is low. So I stop there as I don't want to do anything more to the car since it is about to get hot in the day.
So I wait. I wait till evening. And in the meantime I will write this blog, figuring out what I am going to do about it.
Well, by the looks of things I will have to disconnect the battery cables and get some baking soda and water solution going and a used toothbrush that I will never use again for brushing teeth, it will only be used to mix the baking soda and water solution and to take that solution and scrub out that white stuff. That white stuff is corrosion, all the articles tell you to clean out that corrosion with water and baking soda.
Also if you are out and about and you have no access to water and baking soda, the next best thing is to go to a gas station nearby and buy a soda, I like root beer, so I would open a can of root beer and pour some on the battery terminals, it will eat away at some of that white corrosive stuff, and of course I wouldn't pour all that root beer on the battery terminals, just some, and the rest I will drink to reward myself as I got to clean up some of that corrosive stuff and got to drink some root beer at the same time. If there is a napkin around, I usually keep napkins from some fast foods places that I go to, not that I go to them a lot. Now with a napkin you can clean up some of that corrosive stuff.
But this situation is different, cause there is no charge in the battery. So after I clean up the battery posts and connectors with the baking soda and water solution.
I will get out my old school battery charger.
You can see that it looks old, I bought it on Ebay, maybe it is from the 70's or 80's, but I do like these old school battery chargers. This one can pump up to 10 amps into a dead battery.
Now not all batteries can be charged, but I will try and charge this one, I look at the date and it is from July 2022, so it is only 3 years old. So after I write this blog, I will go outside and clean the battery and connectors, then I will charge the battery maybe all night long and see if it works sometime tomorrow morning.
You know I don't like to buy brand new batteries for the cars. I go to this place that sells used batteries and these batteries come from a wreck, but the battery is still good after the wreck. So that is what I buy, it is cheaper that way. Let's just hope I don't have to buy another battery and that this one charges up pretty good.
Let's end with a scripture, as it is written, Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15.
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Images are mine, taken with my Samsung Galaxy Note 9.