Wednesday, November 09, 2005

The Memory Maintainer

This little contraption keeps your car's clock and radio presets from getting reset when it's battery gets changed.

When you take your car into the shop to get worked on, you plug a 9-volt battery on to the Memory Maintainer, and then plug it into a cigarette lighter. No more having to reprogram everything!

$15.95 at AutoSport

Thanks Militant Platypus

4 comments:

dabirchboy said...

hardly a life saver this one is it!
Think of all the wonderful activities I'm missing out on whilst re-setting my clock after a service.

Anonymous said...

hardly strange, hardly new...

these things are as old as i am.

Anonymous said...

or make your own with 68 cents at your local radio shack

honda_asimo said...

As a former technician at a dealer, I can tell you these don't usually work. 9 volts is not good enough for most modern cars.

Depending on the kind of work being done on the car, it's better not to use one of these. Sometimes it is good to 'reset' the ECM (computer) after certain type of repairs.

I have found that a 12-14.4v battery from a power tool works much better.

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