What is a good method to prevent rust from the battery?

[AZFire316]

I live in an area where for the most part I dont have to worry about rust, no road salts in the winter, no near by ocean, but there is one demon that can still cause corrosion, the battery. What is a good way to protect against battery acid related rust?

[Afugy]

Buy an optima battery....?

[robalero]

buy a new battery because if that happens your battery is getting over-charged or something its not supose to do that

[AZFire316]

every battery ive ever owned after about a year or 2 starts have a lil "seepage" runs perfectly fine and everything just have to wipe it down

Optima, those are dry cell right? no acid to leak out?

[robalero]

must be the heat from where you are or something because I never have that issue

[AZFire316]

110+ summers so maybe?

[[ion] C2]

I've never had that issue, but almost everyone who came into AutoZone when I worked there had terrible green growth on their terminals...

[kwhauck]

coca cola cleans it up....

[cherrington17]

Baking soda + warm water.

Optima batteries are gel cell, not dry cell. Still no acid leak though.

[jawa]

Originally Posted by kwhauck

coca cola cleans it up....

It works as a good degreasr. Now imagine wat that shit does to your body. No thanks

[lonnie]

Interesting enough I have yet to have that problem on my terminals...I don't treat them with anything, and haven't had to clean them since I have had the car going on 5 yrs now. When I drove the pick-up for my last job it had the top terminals and they would corrode all the time...but it was nothing a wire brush and a can of Gunk couldn't handle.