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Another trick is after you clean your battery terminals really well, coat the entire terminal and post with vaseline.....An old timer who was a car mechanic his whole life told me that when I was in my teens and I have been doing it to all my cars for the last 20 years and works awesome...I used to have the white powder buildup after 6 months before he told me to do this.....Now, it totally eliminates it.....