Male Speaker: Battery terminals on this vehicle, you see there -- it's possible may be a battery was leaking at one point, somebody recently put a battery in this thing but didn't do anything on the terminal.
The terminal ends, once it starts getting corrosion, acid eats through the end and sometimes you'll see that fungus grown here looks likes a science project. But most of the time, what we see is this and this, once this grows pass the end besides you are not having a good contact and not being able to start your car, this corrosion will actually start eating its way up into these wires, at which point you are not going to start, the car is not to charge, it's not going to start and when it becomes to repair, you have to replace these wires, sometimes as bad as going to the whole complete harness.
Pouring coke on it doesn't work, it gets rid of for a second but it come right back. There is a battery treatment to resolve this. It's a preventive maintenance, we do it regularly, it's about $20 to save you hundreds of dollars of repairs not to mention the fact that you might be sitting on the side of the road wondering why your car won't start.
Male Speaker: How often should that be done?
Male Speaker: It should be checked periodically -- if you see this, obviously it's corroding the point where it's about to eat right through that contact -- what we regularly do is whenever we have customer that comes in for an oil change or a simple service, we do a complete vehicle inspection, and we make note of these and recommend them as we see them. There is not a really a time frame for that, just when you see it, it should be addressed.
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