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- From: fitchitt@wam.umd.edu ()
- Subject: Re: dead battery needed to pushstart
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.182909.1736@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:29:09 GMT
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- In article <77494@ut-emx.uucp> lihan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bruce G. Bostwick) writes:
- >In article <BsMFH6.K5E@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> tgl@slee01.srl.ford.com (Tom Leone) writes:
-
- [stories and warnings deleted]
-
- Since we are all telling stories....
-
- I once ran a 200SX for two weeks with a "dead" battery (ie it wouldn't hold a
- charge to save my life) Anyway, I was going home in a couple weeks when it
- started to die where there was a good condition die-hard sitting around.
-
- Push Parellel parking is indeed an art....
-
- The area around where I was living was urban city and flat. It was NOT fun
- running the car to 10mph and jumping in....
-
- Even on the way to the battery I had to stop at a rest stop for gas... you
- guessed it... Pushed my way out of the rest stop...
-
- Must say, I probably built up my legs pretty good those two weeks.
-
- A few years before that I had a Volarie (plymoth) that had been in an
- accident, it 270'd into a pole, hit right in front of the front right wheel.
-
- Pushed the battery mount in about 8 inches... It worked ok after that, just
- had this neat "bite" out of it... until it would decide to "explode"
-
- All this smoke would come out of the engine bay, the smell of burnt wire and
- ozone would be all overy^g`;u6l3#v, and of course the power steering and the
- VERY neccessary power brakes (in face all power systems) would be out.
-
- Turns out the hood had rumpled enough combined with the new battery position
- for the hood to come down on both of the battery leads... All I ever did was
- get a jump for about 4 of these "explosions" until I figured it out...
-
- It was pretty scary when it happened once on I-95 going about 80 (flow of
- traffic around there) and all systems shut down... this fool next to me paced
- my as I'm ineffectually hitting the horn (no sound :( ) and gestulating and
- screaming widly for him to get the hell out of the way so I could pull over
-
- I have no idea what the hell he was doing, but I couldn't brake enough to get
- behind him.. .I finally just pulled over and let him decide why they hell he
- was going 50 in the right lane and if I hit him, it was better than the guys
- going 80 coming up on me... I have a feeling he saw all the smoke come out
- of the engine bay and was trying to see if I was going to catch fire or
- something.
-
- Anyway, I came to rest behind a semi inbetween an exit and 95, he had
- been given a truck with a stuck guage and empty tank....
-
- I found out that trucks can give cars jump-starts (I had cables with me of
- course) and I called his company to bring him gas for him...
-
- By this time, enough lead had melted onto the hood for me to notice something
-
- I was only 16 at the time, and completely car ignorant. That thing held up
- to some vicious beatings. I can't belive it completely discharged that many
- times and kept working (it was a die-hard battery too)
-
- Since then, I always stick with Die-Hard batterys, if they went throught
- that...
-
- BTW The 200SX's battery had come with it, I think it was OE.
-