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Thread ID: 124707	2012-05-14 08:52:00	Charging the car battery.	Nomad (952)	PC World Chat

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1275315	2012-05-18 06:59:00	Our old charger worked. :) It charges about 1.5 amps ... slow charger maybe. I just clamped it without removing the cables. The battery is covered up, thru the internet it seems that it has a plastic slide cover which comes off easily and it also has a rubber/plastic what they call it a "firewall" that you can fold over towards the engine side to gain access to the battery. Initially I thought it was stuck to the plastic bit below the wipers at the windscreen .....	Nomad (952)
1275316	2012-05-18 14:22:00	I never saw what Year/Make/Model vehicle this is. Some of the mid-90s Chrysler products had their batteries installed under the fender, and it required a lot of monkey motion to access them. I hated replacing batteries on those cars - passionately! It always seems that when the battery pooped out, it also dribbled electrolyte all over the compartment and generally rotted out all the metal it could. Big mess - bad idea. Chrysler was also most responsible for giving the battery more sensor input to the ECM or BCM - (whatever) - as in that Hobbit House of a compartment, it needed monitoring to make sure it wasn't being cooked by trapped engine heat. I've always thoroughly disliked Chrysler 'engineering' in other battery placements. On the K-Cars the batter was on a tray directly over the transmission shifter cable, quadrant and rooster tail and when the electrolyte leaked - which it did coming off the showroom floor, it dripped into that equipment and destroyed the throttle pressure link & arm and caused the concentric shafts at the quadrant to seize together. Many times what had been diagnosed as a bad transmission, was really just a replacement of those external parts and a new battery. Just stupid. I got quite a few bench-builds from various dealers who had replaced the transmission and the problem still existed. Jerkwater 'mechanics' at the dealer level couldn't even diagnose their own vehicles. I digress again. I hate dealerships and their untrained apes in the repair side.	SurferJoe46 (51)
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