Distilled drinking water for battery water?

**tanatej** · February 6th, 2011 02:45 AM

I often use low-maintenance batteries, and I often find myself running out of the distilled water being sold by car battery stores. I was wondering if I can use Wilkins/Absolut as a replacement since they're much more accessible and convenient...?

**andywesteast** · February 6th, 2011 04:30 AM

OK to use those for battery

**nvidi.turion** · February 6th, 2011 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by andywesteast

OK to use those for battery

how about sir for for our radiators? can we use those we can buy at establishments for dringking waters?... like wilkins...

**al shaheen** · February 6th, 2011 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by nvidi.turion

how about sir for for our radiators? can we use those we can buy at establishments for dringking waters?... like wilkins...

Ok naman ang absolute at wilkins, nasubukan ko na rin ito. Pero nung binanggit ko sa utol ko ang laman ng radiator ay absolute, pinapalitan nya pa rin ng coolant kasi mas effective daw kung may coolant. Siguro di pwede sa matagalan.

**Thumbdrive** · February 6th, 2011 11:38 AM

I also use distilled drinking water in my Battery.
For Radiators, Coolant and/or the recommended mixture/ratio.

**box_type** · February 6th, 2011 04:24 PM

i think its somewhere in the owner's manual that coolant is recommended for the radiator, now some people don't have access to coolants at the time they needed to put fluid into their radiators, they opt for the next best thing.... distilled water, when we say distilled it means free of minerals which are common in regular tap water, which in turn may damage the radiator and engine block in the long run due to corrosion because of its(water) mineral content, so better use mineral free (distilled) water when coolant is not available, imho

**Walter** · June 8th, 2014 10:30 AM

^^^ Don't think you can use distilled drinking water for batteries. The water to be used for batteries should not touch any metal.

**12vdc** · June 8th, 2014 11:31 AM

Batteries use de-ionized/ de-mineralised water.

**dr. d** · June 8th, 2014 11:42 AM

we were using distilled water from the lab for decades. no ill effects..

**ParticleX** · June 8th, 2014 08:34 PM

Okay na, bought Wilkins. Dami kong nilagay sa current batt ko mga 1L

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Charged it for mga 3 hours, pagbalik ko sa sasakyan galit mag redondo so that does it I think.... Monthly checking na lang and top up thru batt charger. Sana tumagal pa ito (it is on its second year na)