Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 11:18 pm Post subject: My lesson learned for today
I bought my first Aristo on tuesday just gone, and have been loving it since. It needed a new battery, among other things, so I spoke to a mate of mine, who is a sales rep for company that sells batteries, he sold me one of their top of the range batteries for cheap. I put it in my car las night, and had a bit of trouble getting the battery clamp on, it was a little tight. Anyway, as I was driving along in peak hour traffic through the city, all the dash lights went out and the engine also cut out. I got it started again, thinking, great I just bought another heap of shit. A little further down the road, I thought I could smell something burning but thought it might have been something in the area and didn't worry about it, until I pulled up in the heavy traffic we get down Anzac Highway, next thing I know, there's flames coming out of the bonnet! I admit, a little bit of poo might have escaped right about then as I flicked the hazards on. I popped the bonnet to find the batter clamp had let go at one end, shorted out on the positive terminal and caught fire!
So, my leeson for today, if the battery clamp feels too tight, chuck it out!
On the plus side, there was no damage done to the car, thankfully
Last freaked with by Pugz on Fri May 18, 2012 9:44 am; freaked 2 times in total
You can see in the photo, the part of the clamp that is bolted to the chassis is pointing straight at the positive terminal. When you get a short like this, it's easy to create fire
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 9:43 pm Post subject:
The great irony is if the execs at said company think that is an acceptable way to treat their staff then it's definitely not somewhere I would ever take my business and I wouldn't hesitate to tell others to steer well clear. The story was clearly unrelated to their brand and no reasonable person would consider it to have affected their brand in any way. Shame on you battery company executives. I hope the execs see this message and deliver an apology to your friend.
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 9:25 pm Post subject:
Cerium wrote:
The great irony is if the execs at said company think that is an acceptable way to treat their staff then it's definitely not somewhere I would ever take my business and I wouldn't hesitate to tell others to steer well clear. The story was clearly unrelated to their brand and no reasonable person would consider it to have affected their brand in any way. Shame on you battery company executives. I hope the execs see this message and deliver an apology to your friend.
It's back in good shape, last I heard the new owner was trying to send me smoke signals the other day when he ran into problems after putting in a new battery. _________________
It's back in good shape, last I heard the new owner was trying to send me smoke signals the other day when he ran into problems after putting in a new battery.
His fault with the wiring side of things after replacing 1/4 of the front end
You basically gave the car away anyway _________________
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