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1993 Geo Prizm battery may have been FUBAR'd
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Toasteroven
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Dec 17, 2007, 8:33 AM
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1993 Geo Prizm battery may have been FUBAR'd
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I installed a 35-DL Duralast from Autozone. It's correct for my 1.6 L 93 Geo Prizm.
I've never put in a new battery before, so I think I screwed it up. It was running on Saturday, but yesterday (Sunday) the entire car died and I had to pull over--I rehooked the battery and it was fine until I got home for the day. I realized I had forgotten to put in the screw and bolt to the negative connector and so it must have slid out of place :|
So this morning I go and turn the lights on to my car to make sure the battery works. Then I put the screw in, and now the car won't start, no-battery style. All I can get is the key-warning beep, all the lights from reconnecting the battery, and the time on the radio. I can't get battery to get the engine to start at all--engine doesn't even try.
There are only three things I can think of that made me screw this up; I ruined the battery by not putting it in the correct order (I didn't know that negative was the very first and last to be put on); is that possible? The other is that there is some old corrosion buildup on the negative uh, connector, but it didn't matter earlier, so I don't think it would matter now...
Third, how would my putting the screw back in ruin it?
How else can you screw up putting in a battery? The clamp, the tray, the connectors were fine; I don't understand what else could have gone wrong, or how those two things matter.
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Tom Greenleaf
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Dec 17, 2007, 9:42 AM
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Re: 1993 Geo Prizm battery may have been FUBAR'd
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Redo your connections and clean them up. Neg off first and on last helps prevent you from grounding out a pos terminal to ground when using tools. I don't think that alone screws up anything otherwise. If you are pretty sure you have it right after that it just might need a jump or better charge it as it may have lost a charge somehow or could be bad.
Don't let discharged batteries get exposed to cold/freezing weather which is the problem of the day here with other things as the battery can freeze when discharged and perhaps ruin it!
T
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