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This is Richard Goms. We're in Murray, Utah. We're talking about basic car care. I'm going
to show you now, how to add water to your battery. Unless you have a sealed battery,
there will be something on top here, that as you open it up, and you need to pry up
on it, probably, with a little screwdriver, or it may be a screw in ***, that you unscrew,
and there's holes here, and for a twelve volt battery, there should be six holes. You've
got this one, and then you've got this one. What we need to do, is look down inside this
hole, and oh, about an inch down, there is a rim. If the water is not up to the rim,
then we need to add water to it. In this case, we have two or three that need a little bit
of water. If you can't see any water, you probably let it go too long, but you can still
fill it with water, and try it. We'll very carefully, try to get a little bit of water,
in the hole. Now, you don't want to overfill these batteries. You just want to bring it
up to that little rim down there, about an inch down, and then when you get done, you've
got to put your caps back on. Make sure they are good and tight. Now, on some cars, there may be a brace coming
across here, holding the battery in position, and that would have to be removed first, before
you could get at these.