Duracell 96R battery in my friends early 2010s Malibu. East Penn manufactured in 2018. Took on a 10 hour drive to FL and when we got here we mostly used my van instead. Car sat for 3 days and when they went to start it to take it the car went click and no start. Hood opened to find a cap not in the battery anymore. Any clue why? The car jump started fine and ran but the caps shouldn’t be blowing off the battery like that.
Duracell battery cap blew off
- Thread starter Lockasiam
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Guess, low on water. Got hot, vapor popped the cap off. But just a guess. Anyway 7 years is a long time for a modern battery.
Makes sense. Put a new maintenance free Everstart Plus T5 in it to replace that old Duracell 96R
Was the blown off cap found?
Examine the threads. Maybe a weird batch of bad plastic resulting in melted threads, allowing blow off?
OR
Someone did a real lazy job replacing it....perhaps just catching a thread crookedly?
It could've shaken off before the long trip.
Examine the threads. Maybe a weird batch of bad plastic resulting in melted threads, allowing blow off?
OR
Someone did a real lazy job replacing it....perhaps just catching a thread crookedly?
It could've shaken off before the long trip.
You would have acid on the hood and on the battery and tray. Did you see this?
It’s one of those ones that you just press in with your thumb but it looked notmal
One which covers three cells? Every other style I've ever seen has threads.
As old as that battery is anything can happen.
No it was a single cell cap
And no acid was spilled or spewed out along with the cap?
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Wierd, those are usually threaded and vented.
Didn’t appear to be, the side was like blown out too and I didn’t even notice that until I went to return for core
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My last East Penn Group 49/H8 flooded I purchased was 7 years ago...it had the screw tops...didn't know they changed the design.
I only buy AGMs now. Rather not have to check the levels....
Still it should vent, so something prevented it from doing so.
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