Nory wrote:
>
> Here's a strange one. What would cause a car to, after a short trip,
> first, not start..... then, coming back to it later, it starts, but
> blows the caps off the battery? This has happened twice in the last
> four or five months. The battery is a year old, and looks like it got
> cracked the second time this happened. Could this be a voltage
> regulator problem? It's running fine now, with another battery (don't
> want to use the cracked one), but I'm sure it's just a matter of time
> before it happens again.
Could be a bad internal connection that is sparking on a heavy discharge e.g.
starting and igniting the gases. It could explain both the not starting and
the
bang. If so, it shouldn't happen on your new battery, unless ...
PaulH.
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