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Old 02-28-2012, 09:17 AM   #123 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic View Post
In areas where there are a lot of military deployments and the cars sit for months without being used their will be a lot of pack imbalances that are diagnosed as failures, when they can be rejuvenated for a relatively low cost.
To an extent. The cars tend to get driven for a couple months after sitting and this will usually drive multiple cells into reversal causing further damage. The recovery rate is usually about 50% of the sticks if the pack was in decent shape before it was parked.

High temperature areas such as Houston will have lower success rates because the rest of the cells are weakened before the sit starts.
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