5000 battery vent????

[esw5@postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu (Ernest Wong)]

Hi all. And I thought for a moment the q group got so popular to pump out
70+ messsages a day. Maybe when they start shipping us the S6.

Back to car questions. What is the use of the vent and vent tube for the
under-seat 5000 series battery? I pose this stupid and probably obvious
question because my recent poking under the back seat reveals that I have
been driving around since Feb. of 91 with a non-vented Exide. Have I been
lucky in not having my Audi turn into the Hindenburg!!! Will someone please
enlighten me.
I hope this message doesn't come back to haunt me 2 weeks from now.
Maybe all those messages from Jan 9th and 10th were stuck in the Bermuda
Triangle of the Internet and have just been rescued. Sorry. I've been
watching too much X-Files on TV.
Thanks for any insight.
87 5000S 5 speed dark metallic blue w/ saggin sunroof.

Ernest Wong
email: esw5@cornell.edu