Well, first I will say I am a moron for doing what I did but I did it and now I gotta get a new carpet. Ok, so it's like this, I go to the yamaha dealer to pick up 2 batteries. One for the waverunner and one for my dirtbike. The WR battery is in a big box and has a separate electrotyle (acid) container and the smaller dirbike battery is in a little box and is already filled. I put them both side by side behind my seat on the rubber mat thinking all will be ok.....and then it happens. The smaller box fell over when I turned one time I guess and dumped out a good bit of acid. It filled the rubber mat up and ran off down the carpet and down the left side of the step rail/rubber door seal, down the door and some even ran down into the wiring harness on the left side!!!!!!!! It eat through the carpet almost instantly and even took some paint off the door where it contacted it. I pulled up the step rail and poured a baking soda and water solution all over everything that had it on it to instantly neutralize the acid so it wouldn't do anymore damage. But it managed to F up the carpet pretty good. I attatched some pics of the damage. I already priced a new black moulded carpet at the local dealer at $319 my cost (since I work for another local dealer). That definitelly ended up being a very expensive battery!!!

Here it ran around the seat mount and in front of it where you cannot see from this pic.

Here is some nice missing paint streaks....

 

Ouch, that really sucks.
Later Trev

 

We all have those "Why the hell did I do that" moments.

I've got a nice door ding in my driver's door because of that. Right on the crease of the body line too, so it'd be a pain in the *** for paintless dent repair, or at least that's what I've been told. Pulled up to a gas pump one day, windy day too, saw the yellow concrete poles they put up around the gas pump. I thought for a second, "Maybe I should pull up a little further...nah, that's close enough." Open my door to get out and the wind catches the door and slams it into the concrete post.

Somedays, you're the bird, and somedays, you're the clean truck that's about to get pooped on.

 

A fitting title for Matt's photo would be:

Here's your brain on METH!

 

Ouch, that stuff makes me cringe!

 

Yikes, that sucks dude. That's why we have beds. To put stuff in!

 

That's a bum deal. Just for curiousity sake, could you let us know
how long the carpet swap takes to finsh ?

 

dont feel bad man.. as im signing for my truck, .. HAIL STORM.. i picked up my truck dented!.. the good news is ford is covering it. .. the bad news is i have to ride around in it dented for a mth or so. I go in two weeks from today and get it repaired. on a lighter not, two weeks after is sign, another hail storm.. but they never looked at the truck after the first one (wiping brow). and to top it off.. i did the gas station thing too.. windy day.. pole. you feel me.. right under the driver side door handle... sticks out bad!.. so like any thinker would do.. trucks in the shop for them to assess the hail damage, i'm like hey man.. i'm not sure where this one came from (pointing to door ding).. i have'nt seen it before sir!..lol.. he's like, well if we can find another hail ding on the door we'll fix that one too... sure enough. between the back and front window, on that black hard stuff. there was a little dink!.. so my ding gets replaced~.. if feel everyone's pain... 1800miles so far and still truckin!

chris

 

did it do any damage to the floor pan?

 

EXACTLY what I was thinking. It still really sucks though.

 

except that would have ate up your bedrug too!

 

To heck with the bed rug. Its like a condom, its for protection.
Although it sucks it happened in the first place, it actually didnt look as bad as I thought it would. I guess I pictured holes appearing or something. You have my sympathy anyway.

 

Holy crap! I would have cried! Anyway, are you doing the carpet install yerself? I was considering replacing my cream carpet with black. Would be nice to know what is involved.

 

OMG That really sucks big time. Good thinking on your part useing bakeing soda to stop the corrosion action. Hope everything works out well for you.

 

The floor pan is fine, it seemed to just melt away the fuzzy part of the carpet and all of the rest is still in tact ( I got the baking soda on there as fast as I could). I pulled up the carpet a little and looked and there is also all that thick sound padding and it all looks ok. I pick up the carpet tommorow and from what I can tell, it should be pretty simple to install, If you feel around the center console, it isn't a solid piece over it, it kind of just goes in an inch or so around it. I guess I'll find out soon enough!!