Battery accident!!
I bought a battery last summer, Group 27 deep cycle. I just found out that it tipped over and spilled the electrolyte. Most of the acid is gone. I have no idea of the state of the left over acid, e...
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SoundGuy wrote:
I've never seen a battery in recent memory that wasn't shipped wet, charged and ready to be placed on the store shelf.
nomad.297 wrote:
I see them all of the time.
My closest local RV dealer here in Ontario belongs to the Canada wide RV Care dealer network and as such sells RV Care branded deep cycle batteries both in the parts store for over the counter sales and installed on new / used trailer sales. These RV Care branded batteries are Deka designed & supplied by East Penn, and are delivered wet to the dealer with a simple cardboard cover which upon delivery is removed and the battery is either put on display in the parts store for retail sale or is installed by a tech on a trailer, no prep of any kind required.
Many Americans may not be aware but here in Canada we have a huge automotive retail chain called Canadian Tire which is Canada wide and since it's humble beginnings nearly a century ago has become a Canadian retail institution, in fact recognized by any Canadian as part of the Canadian identity, just as is Tim Hortons and the Hudson's Bay Company. A couple of years ago I asked at the CT auto parts counter for the same thing - battery acid - so I could attempt to restore the battery in my wife's Corolla but was told that although available to their techs for service purposes it was a product not sold to the public and I couldn't buy it as all wet cell batteries they sell are sold wet, charged and ready to be installed ... and in fact I did replace the battery itself with a new one from Canadian Tire and indeed it was sold wet so all I did was install it in the car.
To categorically claim that wet cell batteries are delivered to a retail dealer and sold dry is simply not the case at all as there are plenty of cases where the exact opposite is true. If the OP can source battery acid locally then there's not much to be lost by attempting to restore this dead battery's acid level but I wouldn't necessarily count on beng able to readily buy the acid nor of it even working ... buying a new replacement battery will. ;)
