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    #1
    My Avanza's Motolite Gold battery has just past the 21 month warranty. It's still working well, but I tried to open it and it looks like it needs more fluid. So I bought an Absolute distilled drinking water and added fluids on it.

    Is it OK to do that on a maintenance-free battery just to extend its lifespan?

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    Yup, that’s perfectly ok to top-up fluid in a MF battery. It will actually prolong its life further.


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    #3
    Use battery distilled water and non metallic funnel and containers

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    #4
    Is it mandatory that battery distilled water be used? Shouldn't a regular drinking distilled water suffice when refilling MF battery?

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    #5
    Quote Originally Posted by yagami_kira View Post
    Is it mandatory that battery distilled water be used? Shouldn't a regular drinking distilled water suffice when refilling MF battery?

    i rather choose those distilled/bottled drinking water than so called distilled water for batteries. and who knows kung totoong distilled nga ba talaga sila(latter).

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    Quote Originally Posted by yagami_kira View Post
    My Avanza's Motolite Gold battery has just past the 21 month warranty. It's still working well, but I tried to open it and it looks like it needs more fluid. So I bought an Absolute distilled drinking water and added fluids on it.

    Is it OK to do that on a maintenance-free battery just to extend its lifespan?
    that's how it was done in the olden days.
    any type distilled water will do.

    nice thing with distilled drinking water,
    i do not fear putting it in the battery, or to drink it, or to wash with it.

    but i am not sure, which is cheaper.
    Last edited by dr. d; April 21st, 2018 at 01:13 AM.

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    #7
    And mas madali maghanap ng distilled drinking water


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    Quote Originally Posted by benchman View Post
    i rather choose those distilled/bottled drinking water than so called distilled water for batteries. and who knows kung totoong distilled nga ba talaga sila(latter).
    kaya nga bro na OA-han ako sa reaction nung usisero sa shell nung nilagyan ko ng absolute yung battery ng friend ko na natuyuan ng battery fluid. sinabihan ko nalang na matagal ko na nagawa ito; pero sa totoo lang kakatanong ko lang yata dito tsikot or PDVD kung pwede or hindi hehehe

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    #9
    I actually have a 10 liters bonus distilled water and just transfer it to 1 smaller bottles.

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    *to smaller bottles. [emoji3]

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Refilling a Motolite Maintenance-free battery