Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 50 | Battery is Given Too Little Care by Average Man Who Owns Auto

h t HERY A Is GIVEN Gil ht I t TOO LITTLE CARE CAREBY my BY AVERAGE MANsHO MAN j WHO sHO OWNS AUTO t mists Stung So Often t b by Y Tricky Repair Shops t They Do Without Service I B By Y Bo Garvey Y motorist only too loo lit lit- Tine The average ern pays ps lc Ie attention to his battery h This indis I Fn able device Is correspondingly little lJ Jer tood Unscrupulous ha battery repair hOps Shops frequently take lake advantage I of or the Automobile owner as a conS consequence tl 1 know of oC one II particular lI Instance where f a J little knowledge l on the part of or the motor car owner would woul have saved sated him hima a atgood good deal of oC anno annoyance This man a friend of mine mint asked H me where to send she when he his battery baller to be overhauled 11 decided to bring his hie car out of oC hibernation rn t- t tion early carbo In the spring pine p-In p I known monn Leaving his battery at a well repair pah shot shop he was told by tin tin- foreman Coreman that all that would be lJ needed would be e a minor adjustment which would co cost t notto notto not notto to exceed 11 1 O The mechanic told L the thc automobile owner he could call for or the e battery In t two wo lays days s Three days s 's after after- afterwards after after- motorist called for Cor the battery wards the battery but was told It ha had not lIot been beel adjusted st b been cn found cound necessary He lie was told these eleven en dollars would cost him repairs When Nhen 1 object objected cd said the man whom and ami called at attention at- at victim none v term l i hall ll-hall han hall no to the fact that I had been positively positively positively assured the repair Mil would be of the repair shop only the hireling said eald the first fint mechanic had made a mistake mis- mis take r. r I 1 went down the street treet to another battery batterr battery bat- bat tery terr repair place and ami amie gave pue e the time in an order to take tt m my batter battery away from tho the first repair shop S A A few da days s later thinking g the tho battery batter would be about ready I called u up Ull 1 t the the second battery JJ repair shop I ha had visit visited cd and learned that the first one had refused to let him have the batter battery Going Going- to tu the original shop I hart had dealt dealL with I found I m my battery read ready and waiting and th the bill was WIlS just 1 GO Yh When n the robbers discovered that I 1 wouldn't stand for Cor theil bunco game ame the they made tho repair at atthe atthe atthe the charge agreed reed on the first place Such incidents as these put all battery charging and repair shops shop's In a bad light as is the automobile owner Is Inclined to tota stay ta clear of a a. repair station as long lon lona a as ashe ashe he can possibly get along alom A A. C C. Cronk manager of the Battery E. Charging station local distributors of oC tho the Columbia battery balter is emphatic in hi his de denunciation denunciation denunciation de- de of or pr practices such a as some of the battery batten repair shops indulge In In Our business has been built up on oft the foundation of honest dealings with the public 8 says S 'S Mr Ir Cronk and We are ex experiencing experiencing experiencing ex- ex a yearly Increase In th the work brought to us I will sa say however that even yet ret we we- run acro across patrons who from Crom h having ins l. been gouged soused on other occasions occasions occa occa- are arc decidedly suspicious The other da day I sold a n man a Columbia Columbia Columbia Colum Colum- bia bia- battery and then advised ad him to drive around to our shop in a L couple of oC weeks to have ha the baUe battery and filled with fresh distilled d water The motorist motorist mo mo- scoffed at the idea of spending time In betting eUin distilled water He sal said the city water was plenty plent good enough and that he could get set this at an any gasoline filling fill fUl- ins ing station r This man displayed hl his absolute ignorance ig- ig norance of the battery which Is Is- purely purely a device built bunt up of oC chemical combinations lions He Ile dl did not know mow for instance the chemicals through which some somo of the city it water I Is filtered red are absolutely the worst thing that can come In contact with the Inside of oC a battery He lie will find out some someday I da day ay to his sorrow that pure distilled water Is a necessary adjunct to an any batten batte bat bat- te ten tery rhen there are motorists who keep the I engines of oC their automobiles going oin at top I spent speed for long IonS continued stretches not knowing that this causes the batt battery y to burn bum n out With Wilh ordinary care a battery wilt will last two years vears yet we frequently have ha bat batteries tenes brought to us at the end of six months all worn out and shot to I i Pm