How does a concrete floor kill an auto/motorcycle battery?

December 21, 2009 by admin · 8 Comments
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Daniel S asked:

I left my motorcycle battery on the concrete floor in my garage for months and it went bad. My mechanic buddy working on my bike said that was a well known no-no but didn’t know the prinicple behind it. In the end, we couldn’t get another charge into the battery.

How exactly does a floor kill the battery like that?

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8 Responses to “How does a concrete floor kill an auto/motorcycle battery?”
  1. duce says:
    December 24, 2009 at 8:03 am

    It probably wasn’t the floor, it was the fact that the battery wasn’t being charged, any lead acid battery will lose it’s ability to hold a charge if it isn’t being periodically charged duce

  2. just wonderin says:
    December 27, 2009 at 2:19 am

    I HAVE HEAR THAT TOO, ALL THE BATTERY PLACES THAT I KNOW HAVE THE BATTERY’S ON BOARDS. YOU SHOULD INVEST IN A TRICKLE CHARGER FOR AROUND 20-25 BUCKS OR SO, MAYBE LESS, IF YOU PLAN ON STORING A BATTERY FOR ANY AMOUNT OF TIME just wonderin

  3. Jason says:
    December 27, 2009 at 6:23 pm

    There’s an old wives’ tale about putting batteries on cement floors. As long as the outside of the battery is clean and dry and the cement is not freezing cold, you have nothing to worry about. Jason

  4. charger_sbee says:
    December 29, 2009 at 9:51 am

    Thats a myth about batteries on concrete floors.Probably started in attempt to keep people from laying car batteries aroud in auto shops.was told this by a representative from Interstate batteries corp. charger_sbee

  5. chuck t says:
    January 1, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    the floor killing a battery is a urban myth. its not true. the cold floor may have an effect on your battery but concrete WILL NOT KILL A BATTERY!. its not a well known no no its a well known urban myth. Motorcycle battery’s have a pretty short life simply because they are always being charged and discharged to the limit of their capability. the plates just warp faster due to that and they just don’t have a long life.motorcycle charging systems just arent as durable as an automobile. chuck t

  6. tito says:
    January 2, 2010 at 5:08 am

    Just remove PROBABLY on,, DUCE ,, answer tito

  7. Rockies VM says:
    January 4, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    It actually used to be kind of true a long time ago.

    It was when battery cases leaked just a Little bit and discolored the concrete floor. battery cases now are perfectly sealed and this is not a problem.

    Batteries stored on the concrete are actually a little cooler, which these days is better for battery storage.

    Batteries go dead from not topping off the charge often enough. got to check them every 60 days. Rockies VM

  8. eldoradodave says:
    January 5, 2010 at 2:51 am

    Give Chuck T 10 pts for not only his answer about “concrete causing a battery to die as a urban myth” but also his explanation about motorcycle batteries being a short life battery and why ya should get a Battery Tender for the next one ya buy as it keeps a battery charged by returning it to a fully charged level without over charging it ( cost is around $30 for the Jr. model and $50 for the deluxe model). you can also get a solar powered one and I can’t remember who makes them but American Rider Mag. gives them a very high recommendation if ya don’t have electric in your garage. Also the newer the battery( just made and not sitting on the shelf for a few month’s also affects the battery’s ability for not only a full charge but also a longer life. Every battery Co. has a “made on this date code” stamped on them. Have , whoever sells ya the battery about the code cause some of them just denotes a letter or # for the month, same for the yr. and the day of the mo. or even the # for actual days of that yr. ( like 165 for the 165th day of that yr or it may say A for Jan, 22, for the day it was sealed and 7 or 07 for the yr. A could also denote model change mo. A= Sept. B=Oct C=Nov. etc etc. Hope this helps ya buy the next battery and get the longest life out of it eldoradodave

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