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Use Coca-Cola to clean it up, it really works, I heard it on CarTalk. I knew about it well before I heard it on there though 
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Anyone know how to treat the terminals after the cleaning? I have been catching the small amounts of corrosion on my negative terminal and have been cleaning it every other oil change. Now it is starting to rust. Good connection, but bad if this is allowed to continue..... would anyone recommend a kind of paint to go on the outer surfaces (where it does not contact the post)? I am planning on replacing the nut/bolt assmebly, but do not want to have to replace the whole cable, and I definitely DO NOT want to cut the original connector off and splice my cable onto a "wal mart" style terminal clamp. Any help would be appreciated.
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I have a '97 LX with its orig. battery, which I clean maybe twice a year.
A couple years back everybody I knew was putting a coating of silicon on their terminals. I've never tried it.
Any thoughts on this type of work-around??
Please advise.
'97 Contour LX
2.5L V6 PFI 24V DOHC
no mods as of yet, but they're coming.
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Nothing a good Coca-Cola can't clean. Hell everytime you drink a coke, open the hood and just poor some on 
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Originally posted by SILVA BULLITT: Nothing a good Coca-Cola can't clean.
Hell everytime you drink a coke, open the hood and just poor some on Then it would be all sticky!!!  do you wash it off?? I hope you don't have to leave it on there...
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Use club soda instead of Coca-Cola.
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They make some stuff you can put on battery terminals to protect them from corrosion. It's usually red in color, as I recall. I use Deoxit D5, myself, but it can be hard to find. Brian Originally posted by fenderman49:
Anyone know how to treat the terminals after the cleaning? I have been catching the small amounts of corrosion on my negative terminal and have been cleaning it every other oil change. Now it is starting to rust. Good connection, but bad if this is allowed to continue..... would anyone recommend a kind of paint to go on the outer surfaces (where it does not contact the post)? I am planning on replacing the nut/bolt assmebly, but do not want to have to replace the whole cable, and I definitely DO NOT want to cut the original connector off and splice my cable onto a "wal mart" style terminal clamp. Any help would be appreciated.
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this just happened to me yesterday! i was so pissed off. my positive cable corroded completely through, just about 1/2" away from the terminal! i was SURE it should be considered a factory defect, which the local Ford dealership service manager so rudely disagreed with.
my car is a 2000, V-6, automatic, with only ( ha! i said 'only' ) 48,000 miles on it.
they wouldnt warranty it, nor use my extended warranty.
the new "cable assembly" (thats where they get you... 'assembly') was mine, for the one-time-only price of $136.80
screw that, i went to Batteries Plus, and they installed a universal cable/terminal, and even spliced the other wires into it for me : total bill $14.94
it even looked pretty 'stock,' it had a black plastic box that covered the splice part.
MY BIG QUESTION FOR ALL ! ! has this happened to anyone with LESS than (or close to) 48,000 miles? PLEASE let me know (Im50fast@aol.com) if it has, so i can not feel singled out by the hands of the evil.Ford gods...
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Use some coca cola or club soda on it to get rid of the corossion. Then put some vasaline on the terminals to stop corrosion from comeing back. I clean the post about once a year or when some corrosion is seen.
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