Strange yellow liquid on battery terminals

**Alpine** · 22-08-2004 07:21 PM

Just discovered some strange looking liquid on my battery terminals this evening. It's not crusty or white, rather a wet looking yellow liquid. Never seen this before. Any ideas what this is?? Is it corrosion?? The liquid is even under the terminal where the positive cap is. I'm abit concerned if it's safe or not. Hope it's not leaking acid or something. Anybody seen this before??

**bigteethygrin** · 22-08-2004 07:40 PM

its an anti corrosion coating

**kwayzivietnamese** · 22-08-2004 07:41 PM

Have any birds under ur bonnet lately...
Nah, on a more serious note, that looks scary....did u recently replace the batt?
Maybe its diff power rating to the standard one...or ur drawing too much power from it...

**Psyklops** · 22-08-2004 08:03 PM

I though it would be anti corrosion stuff too...but look at the spatter near the base of the terminals...and the foam like effect..almost looks like it had pressure in the battery and it discharged some stuff...hard to say

**MR-VTEC** · 23-08-2004 10:59 AM

yeah id like to know what it is too got the same thing on my battery. whats causing it and is it safe?

**MrPlow** · 23-08-2004 11:48 AM

yts battery acid... your battery is obviously leaking...

get that shit cleaned up ASAP as it removes EVERYTHING... (ie: your paint, eats plastics)

**MR-VTEC** · 23-08-2004 12:13 PM

do you know what would cause this?

**Psyklops** · 23-08-2004 12:16 PM

no but I have seen car batteries blow up (literally explode) whilst being charged by an external charger....dunno what the cause is though...

**[zeth]** · 23-08-2004 12:23 PM

loose terminals can cause this.. happens to my car and wat i did was just clean it up and spray the anti corrosion thing

**EuroAccord13** · 23-08-2004 05:31 PM

wash with hot water or coke and see if it starts building up again....

**bigteethygrin** · 23-08-2004 06:08 PM

its anti corrosion stuff dude.. ask ya mechanic.. they spray this stuff on every service.. it splatters coz they are very hasty in spraying it..

**mytoycivic** · 23-08-2004 10:36 PM

you sure? i dont think this looks like something you would spray...looks pretty darn lethal to me...
you may be right, but if they r spraying that sh!t like that, i would go back and tell them they did a sh!t job!!!IMO