I did 2 things. One is probably not a safe one.

1) found a plastic orange battery protector. It goes over the terminal
allowing the wires to go under the plastic. Something like its picture here:
http://www.nyautocare.com/shops/1/car-battery.jpg

2) I put cardboard around it. Mostly as a winter cover. When I fold the
pieces over it covers the terminals.

I would be most concern with the Positive side +.

Good luck,
Tony

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:

> As we all know, the battery compartment of the vanagon is under the
> passenger seat.  It is covered with a metal lid.  What do you folks do to
> insure that this lid never contacts the battery terminals?  The thing has
> screws to fasten it in place, but seems capable of coming loose and becoming
> a conductor.  I considered a pad made of an old inner tube, or something
> similar.
>
> Thanks,  David McNeely
>

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