Battery drain

[Stephen Sherman]

Not that unusual. Lead-acid batteries give off flakes from their plates 
as they age. These tend to collect at the bottom of the battery. 
"Long-life" batteries often just have a larger space at the bottom to 
collect this debris.

It's not uncommon with older batts that removing them, or driving over 
bumpy roads can stir up those flakes at the bottom and short things out. 
Very possibly just what happened to you...



On 8/22/2010 4:11 PM, Louis-Alain Richard wrote:
> A while ago, the girlfriend's Cabrio needed a lamp change, and this meant to
> remove the battery from the car. Did that, changed the lamp, and reinstalled
> the battery in less than 10 minutes. But it was enough to kill it, just the
> removal/reinstall must have move something inside since the next day that
> battery was just un-chargeable. Dead as a doornail, but it never showed any
> sign of wear before that. The battery was the OEM and was about 6 years old.
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> Louis-Alain
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