^ "Once again, a news article is accurate as long as you don't actually know the facts."
I read it as "adhesive."
Dealers will inspect the battery cable joint and remove excess adhesive that may cause the problem. Then they’ll reassemble and tighten it.
Surely adhesives are fine in many applications, but I have my doubts in electrical connections, if that's how they're using it.
P = I
2R
See, I was thinking "High I
2 on starting" means more heat (P), depending on R, which is not zero.
If I is, say 200 Amps for starting, I
2 gets pretty big, and so does P, even if R is in milliohms. And nowadays, with the constant restarts at traffic lights, you've got a lot of P-cycling.
More heat (P) usually leads to decomposition of the adhesive. Decomposition of the adhesive means mechanical failure of the connection. Possibly in a runaway situation. But what do I know?
Anyhow, never mind. If they want to clean out the connection ("remove excessive adhesive") and re-crimp it for free, what the hell do I care? I hope the pennies they saved in production did not get burned up in the recall.
Terry "The best electrical glue is solder," 230RN