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Jan 26, 2014 | 04:37 PM

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dailydriver

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Originally Posted by dabest09

Well it had to be broken before I got the car because this was the first time I touched the battery.
My guess is that the cheap material it is made out of cannot withstand a mixture of heat, cold, and everyday bumps that you encounter on the road.

THIS^^^

It's like fatiguing a paper clip or piece of soft metal by hand, except that here we also have EXTREME heat cycles working on that lip, along with the weight/mass/force of the battery stressing it on every turn, bump, pothole, acceleration/braking, and compression of the road (along with possibly acid working on it, for those who still use a flooded lead acid battery).

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