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Strange Red stuff on Battery
It came like this from the factory..
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Does anyone else have this red liquid/paste on their battery???
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Ya its just a grease they use on the battery terminals to keep them from corroding.
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its grease...mine has it on there but its kinda yellow/brown....not red.....

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should i wipe it off? or keep it?
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Keep it, it's there for a purpose.
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its called dielectric grease, it helps fight corrosion ...
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its called dielectric grease, it helps fight corrosion ...[hr]
Maybe I should imerse my car in such stuff, to prevent corrosion on my car
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ya it comes that way dont worry about it, and keep it there!!
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I had this white hard paste kinda stuff on mine. what do you reackon that is?
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That would be the corresion they are talking about.
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[hr]I had this white hard paste kinda stuff on mine. what do you reackon that is? [hr]
OMFG!!!! Run, it's gonna blow![IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG]
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[hr]I had this white hard paste kinda stuff on mine. what do you reackon that is? [hr]
That would be the corresion they are talking about.[hr]
hahaha you wiped off your grease, didn't you [IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG]
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Yeah, I had white stuff on mine. Wait, that sounded funny.
Never seen the red stuff before. Wait, that sounded gross.
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Shady man, very shady
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on mine too, he was right dieelectric grease, for a reason keep it there, works great by the way, i put some on all my new batteries you can buy it for cheap
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