Battery Safety

[whunter]

This can happen in your car...

Battery Safety
http://www.rayvaughan.com/battery_safety.htm

Reversing a battery's polarity is dangerous and can cause explosions and chemical burns
http://en.petzl.com/petzl/LampesNews?News=115

Reverse Polarity Batteries
http://cr4.globalspec.com/article.pl.../06/12/0349222

14. WHAT ARE THE MYTHS ABOUT BATTERIES?
http://www.uuhome.de/william.darden/carfaq14.htm

Sight & Hearing Association:
Nearly 6,000 motorists each year suffer serious eye injuries or even blindness from working around batteries.
http://www.sightandhearing.org/news/...ssueoct98.html

Battling Bad Batteries
http://www.scientificadvisory.com/batteries.html

Interstate Batteries Warranty Limitations
http://www.ibsa.com/www_2001/content...imitations.asp

Dear Tom and Ray:
http://www.cartalk.com/content/colum...anuary/02.html

Batteries in Fact and Fiction
http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/uham/bat.html

Links in mercedesshop.com forums:

battery blew up - attention PEH
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...147#post445147

Battery Explosion
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...4122#post34122

Battery noises
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...1062#post41062

Dangerous battery explosions!
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...60#post1057860

battery exploded!
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...5913#post35913

[rg2098]

You have too much time on your hands. Good info to post BTW.

[Ramblin]

I always wondered why maintenance free batteries still need maintenance.. I think it is a scam perpatrated by battery companies to get you to buy more batteries.

[Larry Delor]

That's pretty much what my battery looked like in the E420. It sounded like a baseball had been dropped on the trunk from a 20 story building.
A Bang so loud, I involuntarily shouted out an expletive.

[TheDon]

boy am i glad i installed the drain that came with my group 49

i was afraid my old battery was going to explode when i was taking it out

Battery box probably helped hold the H gas in nice and close to the case

Scary!

[Matt L]

Originally Posted by Ramblin

I always wondered why maintenance free batteries still need maintenance.. I think it is a scam perpatrated by battery companies to get you to buy more batteries.

I take it that you haven't used non-maintenance-free batteries. They need lots of maintenance. Checking your supposedly maintenance-free battery once a year is nothing. There really is a difference.