Hey Guys,

While doing my normal check up on fluids and stuff, etc. etc., I noticed that my battery tie down was literally rotting away. So I starred at it and thought it might be the heat circulating in the engine bay that caused the Batt. Tie down to rott away. I check'd the terminals and all is fine and uncorroded.So any experienced this before? Ill just get a new one. So here's some pics.

TIA,
walt





Back side of the OEM Battery Tie Down"

 

I have to say that is as common as hair on ********.

 

Weird huh!! I even hit the tie down against cement and it sounded like it is made of some sort of metal type material and thought, what sort of metal type material rott away? Oh wells, i guess its just a weird gremlin. Thanks for replying.

 

Whats worst is that ive had the same cancer on my nissans, toyotas and my jeep. What I ended up doing was going to a sealed optima to cure the corrosion.

 

I can attest to having the same problem, I recently replaced mine with a Cobb tie down. At least the aluminum won't disintegrate like the stock piece had been =/

 

-poor a can of coke on it to nuetralize the battery acid
-clean up
-sand
-repaint


the cheap and easy

 

What kind of coke?? "Columbian Coke??" j/k Well I'll have to go buy those felt pads or try the vaseline method. Anyone did the penny method were you place a few pennies near the positive terminal which will draw the corrosion away from the terminals?

 

mean ah...battery acid...

 

It's probably the acidic vapors venting from the battery that causes that. I had those all over the terminal posts on my focus.

 

I thought corrosion will only be at the cables/terminals but i guess not. Never seen corrosion only on the tie down.

 

ok here's what i did when mine had same problem..

took battery tie down off...threw it away...cleaned up battery...and used choke zip ties..haha...jk

nev

 

as someone said...most common batteries have a vent...where they vent sometimes determine where the most corrosion occurs...to eliminate it? probably one of those gel cell sealed batteries...

you could clean it up...then use one of those battery spray protecting coatings...

 

uhuhuhhh you said acid!! and yeah i agree with jess or baking soda/water insted of coke... even cheeper hehehe

 

NiIcce. Ghetto Style...Just my style.

thanks, but the thing that is bothering me at the time and IIRC from chem. is when sulfric acid gases makes contact with metal it will discolor it like how zinc will turn greenish and copper with have the rusty look but then again that was in highschool. Oh wells, ill just not think about it.

Thanks warren!! Hahaha ***-id.

 

sweet HRS