Stuff is fixed? was: Oops, was: New battery.

XS11E <xs11e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> XS11E <xs11e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> I ordered a Westco online, it should be here in 5 - 6 days.
> 
> Westco will be here tomorrow according to UPS tracking site.
> 
> I hoped I could get the old battery to charge enough to move the
> car, when I tried to hook the charger to it I found the ground
> strap broken between the battery and the clamp that holds the
> cable to the body, right above the battery.
> 
> A quick trip to AutoZone, new ground cable and now the car cranks
> over like a new battery!  The battery is a Mazda one, it looks
> fairly new. 
> 
> I think I just wasted a whole bunch of money.... <sigh>  I should
> have looked before ordering....

Weird.... I've slain some gremlins with the new Westco battery.  My 
driver's side window is no longer slow, I've not had the headlights 
refuse to pop up and a few other very minor things are no longer 
happening since I installed the new battery.  OK, I know it's not the 
battery, it had to have been the partially broken ground strap no 
allowing full power to window motors, headlight motors, etc.

Oh, golly gee whiz how I wish I'd looked carefully at that ground strap 
and maybe I would have noticed it was frayed?????  Or maybe not, it 
broke right where it p***** throught the body ground strap right about 
the negative terminal and next to the power antenna, it's pretty well 
tucked away out of the light.


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