AchingBack
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Six years on a battery is very good. If I would have done some preventive maintenance on my battery when it was new, I'm sure I would have lasted more than 3 1/2 years. from it.
AchingBack said:Six years on a battery is very good. If I would have done some preventive maintenance on my battery when it was new, I'm sure I would have lasted more than 3 1/2 years. from it.
Sorry, but that's nothing more than a lack of maintenance.
Yes and no..... in my case the corrosion was present on a tractor that was roughly a year old. My 7 year old car (Honda Accord) has a battery terminal which is of similar construction, but still has no evidence of corrosion what so ever after 7 years. The difference is that Honda coated the battery terminal with a protectant grease, the Mahinda appears not to have any sort protectant applied, simply bare metal. Over the years of working on various vehicles and equipment you have expectations of what may need tending to and when. A tractor a year old I would not expect to have a problem with a battery connector if properly installed at the factory with a protectant coating such as was on my car, thus I normally wouldn't look at this. For what ever reason I did look under the red boot cover and noticed the corrosion and that's what prompted me to start this thread, as I didn't think most folks would check this on a fairly new tractor.