Corrosion on Your Car / Truck Battery? Cleaning Tips! It’s Important!
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- You may find some dusty green or brown corrosion on your battery, especially near the terminals or metal tie downs. If you discover this, it may be the result of an overcharge condition, undercharge condition, or excessive venting of the battery. This video shows you how to clean the battery up, why you should, and other places to check for additional corrosion, like the terminal ends and wires, that could cause more problems with your electrical system, even after you replace a battery!
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Ditto
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When cleaning the tops of the batteries, I always plug the holes with rubber stoppers to keep the cleaner out of the internals of the battery. Has always worked well for me.
Concise yet thorough presentation by a well spoken and obviously qualified professional. Very well done! Thanks.
I never heard of corrosion of the different terminals due to different over or under charge conditions. That’s interesting. Very cool test with the LED bulb to show the small current drain on the top of the battery! I never saw that before, which really makes you think about keeping the battery clean! Excellent video overall!
What an excellent battery cleaning information video!
+Nicolaas Van de Houten Thanks for the feedback!
This is a great video! So informative and detailed yet easy enough for someone with little experience to understand. I especially appreciate the explanation of the causes of corrosion. The fact that I have corrosion on the positive terminal and the illustration of the need to take the battery out helped me decide to wait 2 days and get my voltage regulator checked vs. tackle the cleaning myself. Thanks for the helpful content!
23:55 Dielectric grease does NOT conduct electricity
Vericle? Vehicle? I'm new to this channel is this just something he does?
I keep forget why the terminal keep getting corrosion and came here to refresh my memories, but at the same time got info how to properly cleaned the battery too. Great info, thanks.
One observation that I made was as the battery nears its END OF LIFE their increased off gassing from the battery and subsequently the top of the battery is "moistened" with acid from the battery and the corrosion increases at an alarming rate on both terminals but mostly on the positive terminal.
The best battery maintenance video there is! Never thought of contaminants getting to the cells
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RIP headphone users. Dude just blew out my right speaker. Keep the volume at half if you're wearing headphones.
Thank you for taking the time to help people with their cars!
I'm a lifetime electrical guy and I would like to add: Voltage doesn't flow, current flows. A lot of people like the water analogy, so let's use that. Voltage would be analogous to pressure and just assume whatever the device that requires Voltage, is already designed for that Voltage (pressure) too little or too much voltage to the device, can cause issues. However, current that flows to devices, can vary depending on certain factors. For instance, your stereo will use less current when the volume is low and more when the volume is high. Windshield wipers: less current on low than high, etc. You battery delivers more current (flow), through the cable, the more devices it's powering, could be: headlamps + radio + wipers + defrost. The alternator is wired in parallel to the battery, so it powers items, or shares the load, when the engine is running.
I know I’m 2 years late. But for a week now my battery has been having issues cranking. Every morning it takes a couple seconds to turn over. I looked at my battery and saw a lot of corrosion on my positive(RED) side but none on my negative (BLACK) side.
Does that mean that I am over working my alternator?
Because I drive about 1 hr round trip to my 2 jobs. It’s also hot and humid outside, so I have my A/C on full blast, I also use my Apple CarPlay to listen to audiobooks and music, as well as use my high beams at night to get from one job to the other.
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Thank you for this. Gonna work on my battery 🔋 tomorrow.
So what about when its on both terminals.. lol
if this guy says “of course” one more time I’m going to go insane 😣 reminds me of a graduate professor that said “obviously” all the time 🙄
Gotta admit at 77 years that a red headed stranger could teach me anything about battery maintenance that I didn't know. Duh... Best presentation ever! Thanks.
I'll leave the battery in, Thierry all sealed now.
You explained in so much details and sheer eloquence I'm convince you have gotten training in public speaking and speech broadcast
I love this guy! I knew half the info but kept watching for his moxie.
Blippi meets car mechanics. Loved this video and your energy!
simple work talk too long , just a few mins work. made me not interest to continue.
Dielectric grease is Not a conductor, it's an insulator
Thank you for explaining this so well, above and beyond just the procedure
😄😄 "you do you boo boo" 😄😄
i learned in electronics class that you should never clean electrical contacts with sandpaper. due to the silica in the sand. you should have used a wire brush. i am 61yo and have been working on cars for 40 years.
I keep an old tooth brush in my tool box just for this purpose. It works great at cleaning up those terminals with the baking soda and water
Tap , warm or hot water?
@@marlenesanchez6370 between room temperature and lukewarm,no more no less.
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boiling water to clean and copper grease to protect have done that for 40 odd years allways works and no problems
Me too
great video, explained many of my questions I had over the years, like why disconnecting battery ground first. thumbs up.
Thanks for watching!
I so enjoyed the theatrics of your training & it made a difference totally. Gotta have fun with knowledge & sharing it. I will be attempting to clean my battery today. Question: why didn't you clean the area where the battery sits on-it was very dirty? Felt like you should it up after cleaning the battery so nicely. Thanks
Honestly, with all this time and effort needed, it might just make sense to buy another battery instead...
I’m broke … so can of coke it is lol
Best battery maintenance video on TH-cam!!! Great job guys.
Thank you!
Very professional and well put together video sir. I learned a lot today. Thank you.
How would you recommend disposing of cleaning fluid (water-baking soda) that's been used?
Great job! Really good information and expressed intelligently. Top shelf!
Thank you!
If corrosion happens because the caustic gasses escape the battery and causes the terminals to corrode...why does it have to mean over charging or under charging???? The corrosion will happen and it doesn't "have to" mean it's being under charged or over charged.
If u flip that flat plate on universal on neg terminal, 'mountain' bump becomes a 'valley' bump & cable will fit tighter. Moisture on top is ALSO from overfilling cells w/water. Fill enuf to cover plates but BELOW Delco eye, this allows for expansion. Jst keep battery clean & DRY. Jst sayn.👍
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Find then clean every grounding point on the engine to chassis clean them every couple years and your vehicle will have far less problems including battery corrosion.
+derwood 454 Thanks for the feedback!
I did that the other day. Missed it for years.
Great work here! appreciate the knowledge as well it answers many "why?" Questions. and even going as far as showing us the work is awesome appreciate this content please continue to create more
He is saying “Verical” right? Great video.
Veer the vehicle vertically Vern.
Dielectric grease does not conduct electricity. It simply has a greater water resistance than standard grease
i hear people say electrical tape conducts electricity too
Thanks for this. My car won't start, the battery has a bunch of corrosion.
I just cleaned the corrosion using your tutorial. I haven't tested if it's gonna turn on again lol I'm a bit scared. Can I start the car right away or wait it out?
I am sad 😢with myself because if I would watch these videos before call to the mechanic, 👩🔧 I would be more knowledgeable to check my car and probably wouldn’t expend more than a $1.000,00 and my car is dead again, even with new battery 😢
I love seeing your videos! I need to do the cleaning of my battery terminals, but just because of how fun and informational this was, I even want to show my fiance! Thanks guys!
Green wires. See Renault for details 😹😹🏴🇺🇸🏴
I am IMPRESSED BUT... where's the ground wire ? shouldn't I disconnect the first ?
I use to work on my car when I was younger 25ys now I'm 65 now and how convenient you tube NO MORE MANUELS
so the ground connected to the body the the car first? DIY cause of chance going to get ripped
The caps have 3 o ring on them nothing will get in there
That terminal cleaning brush is pathetic🤓🤒 Replace it today! 👍🏻
Great. I thought I had a moth problem but it's really a battery problem.
So don’t use universal connectors. Especially on modern autos with computers bc :
1: You might do a bad job installing it. That applies to any connecter.
2: Moisture can get inside the wire insulation that doesn’t fully enclose the wire. They’re definitely still using non enclosed connections on modern.
You laid a flat smashed ground wire on the connection to show it won’t be tight. On top of a clearly rounded channel made for the wire. How about twisting it back tight and installing it properly.
The the positive connection to the terminal which wasn’t addressed can be removed independently from the other connections on the positive and replaced.
Look how easy it is but… make sure you only use dealer authorized parts even if they are the same quality. Or else… 😂
My lights went completely went out on my acura mdx. I check all fuses and I thought for sure i missed something. Ground cable was tight but it was a universal terminal that was not properly sealed. Bought a new ground cable and she fired right up!
Possibly the most annoying TH-cam dude I’ve ever watched. Of course
Are u a gay man 👬
Great content! This is my first time seeing battery cleaning at such a premium level! How do you properly dispose of all the liquids used to clean the battery? Thanks
Appreciate the info.
It was whut i needed.
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Thank you for this so informative well explained ... i feel like a bad ass because thanks to u i got my battery back Online 😎🤓👏🤝
veericle?
W-D 40 work very well too!
What to do if like you were trying to clean the positive terminal, until the terminal cracks. And hard to remove the terminal with the battery terminal fuse, like its sealed with it.
Great video! City. How many times you say " of course 😂". Seriously though, appreciate it
I liked the video and it helped me a lot just recently. But on another discussion if you and TH-camr Ginger Billy were to do a video together that would be awesome!
I was hoping a better explanation of how to use dielectric grease would have been mentioned. Dielectric grease is an *insulator*, so it's very important that the contact areas don't have any on them. It was done right, but there was no mention of what would happen if done incorrectly. You could melt down your battery terminal if there's dielectric grease between the post and the connector while trying to turn it over.
Glad i saw this before starting. All the videos i saw said to just dump a baking soda slurry all over the top while everything was still connected
1967 Cameo Ivory GTO at 4:33. Nice. This is a fantastic video, the best I have seen on battery corrosion.
When cleaning the tops of the batteries, I always plug the holes with rubber stoppers to keep the cleaner out of the internals of the battery. Has always worked well for me.
Sprayed some battery terminal cleaner on the battery. Luckily didn’t brick my battery but won’t be doing that again 😅
Anyone know of way to take off RUST . Got to replace one very rusted out too hard to remove battery terminal . And yes I’ve used penetrating oil
Very informative, explaining why certain methods are correct or not. Really appreciate the detail.
So why was the battery overcharging? He mentioned something about the alternator. Does that mean that the alternator is going bad?
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Very professionally presented
Very knowledgeable
Taught me something that I never knew and that is the voltage leakage on the battery top.
The over and under charging indicator is also very new to me
I am going to inspect my battery and cables tomorrow
Thank you very much
Very informative and I enjoyed the entire video. May decide to switch careers lol
thanks for the clear and thorough 60fps video! iits always a treat to see how to do things nice and clearly like this.
Superb presentation. Well written, edited, narrated, and good cam work. I haven't finished watching it yet. Just finished doing the voltage meter testing. Thank you.
I rarely drive and when I do its usually less than 5 miles-both my cars have had battery corrosion on the positiver terminal -so bad that I had to replace the ends on both cars
Nc impotants infos, Lods
Thanks
Happy 2023
You explained this really well and you're very passionate about this and it shows
I replace battery clamp i don't referbish the metal is compromised with battery acid effects
This guy is awesome! Learned a lot from this video. Thank you!
Woah! Good thing I kept watchin! U stopped me, mid-lick! 😜
This is absolutely THE BEST video on battery care. I understand now so much more about batteries and care, and so clearly. Thank you sincerely 💚💚💚💚
In my experience Interstate batteries are junk. I only buy Deka batteries. 😊
In my experience Interstate batteries are junk. I only buy Deka batteries. 😊
Thanks, really helpful with the mitigation.
Interstate battery has a cool warentey program replace battery if it's that bad for free
Thats how its done
Simply explained ! Way to go !
Good video, but dielectric grease does not conduct electricity, its a dielectric.
Seriously appreciate all the information. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
He said you do you boo boo!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Pour a coke a cola or Pepsi on it they will come clean as when you bought the car
Couple weeks ago my car wouldn't start. Took it to get checked and it was the diodes, so i replaced the alternator and still nothing. So i replaced the battery thinking it drained and same thing. well yes it was the terminals that were dirty and also the negative terminal was broken. Saddest part the tech who replaced the battery failed to mentioned it because it wasn't part of his job. 🤦♂️lesson learned start by the terminals and battery.
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When electricity passed through dissimilar metals “Galvanic Corrosion” begins. The most active metal will corrode at an accelerated rate. Traditional battery connectors are lead, with the locking device made of steel/zinc, dissimilar metals. Gator Loc™ is constructed with no exposed dissimilar materials, leaving no possibility for corrosion.
Top post batteries are the worst anyway, side post only for me
Great tips🔥
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It’s very clean compared to Preston.