While Vaseline's main purpose typically doesn't have anything to do with vehicles, some drivers and mechanics use it for vehicle battery maintenance.

Once everything is cleaned, it's important to dry the terminals and the battery off with an old rag. The final step is to dab a small amount of petroleum jelly on the terminals and reattach the ...

Use petroleum jelly or battery grease. Coating the terminals with petroleum jelly or battery grease will help prevent corrosion. Remove the battery cables before you apply either one. Battery ...

apply a bit of petroleum jelly around each terminal to deter future corrosive buildup. Is your car battery starting to sound as if it won’t turn over? Worried that you’ll be stuck the next ...

Spread a thin layer of petroleum jelly onto the clean battery terminals to help prevent future corrosion. Reattach the cables, this time starting with the positive (red) cable, then the negative ...

Step #6: Set the new car battery into place and put petroleum jelly – a good amount of it – on the battery terminals. This will help act as a conductor between the clamps and terminals ...

My dad used to coat the terminals with petroleum jelly, and I suppose it worked. Back in those days, a car owner was under the hood on a regular basis, making it easy to forecast battery problems and ...