Fitting Battery

[Juno]

Battery totally Fooked,won't take a bean of charge.Can it be done on a normal jack height,looks like maybe not,what's the options for battery? Heeeeeeelp

[2.5bluenob]

What do you mean by normal jack juno? that said i would have thought weather using a scissor or trolley jack would be fine.
Steve

[Juno]

2.5bluenob said:

What do you mean by normal jack juno? that said i would have thought weather using a scissor or trolley jack would be fine.
Steve

Yes scissor jack then blocks!

[Juno]

Can it be done by taking wheel off and the Ali side panel ?

[2.5bluenob]

No i think its only way out is bottom.

[Juno]

Bugger

[Alpinestars]

I thought you'd sold it Barry? It's not that hard to change it. Drive it onto a wooden plank if you can't get the jack under it. Take the wheel and wheel trim off and lower the battery out of the bottom.

If I can do it, anyone can.

Edited by Alpinestars on Tuesday 28th January 23:47

[Juno]

Alpinestars said:

I thought you'd sold it Barry? It's not that hard to change it. Drive it onto a wooden plank if you can't get the jack under it. Take the wheel and wheel trim off and lower the battery out of the bottom.

If I can do it, anyone can.
Hi mate I did sell it and bought another one Lol

Edited by Alpinestars on Tuesday 28th January 23:47

[Juno]

Juno said:

Alpinestars said:

I thought you'd sold it Barry? It's not that hard to change it. Drive it onto a wooden plank if you can't get the jack under it. Take the wheel and wheel trim off and lower the battery out of the bottom.

If I can do it, anyone can.
Hi mate I did sell it and bought another one Lol

Edited by Alpinestars on Tuesday 28th January 23:47

What's in your collection now days ?

[2.5bluenob]

2.5bluenob said:

No i think its only way out is bottom.

I just read my post.
can you believe English is my first language lol.

[JBliss]

Alpinestars said:

Take the wheel and wheel trim off and lower the battery out of the bottom.

Edited by Alpinestars on Tuesday 28th January 23:47

No need to take the wheel and trim off.
Jack the car up for clearance..
Dave @jetstream made it look easy and had mine changed in minutes!

[Alpinestars]

You should have bought mine! Any pictures?

[Adrian W]

It's not hard...................even for you!

[D_G]

As Adrian says, it's not that difficult. Just get the car up on the drivers side rear and you can reach the clamp and terminals from the top and bottom. Takes me around 10 mins.

[Davie M12]

Be very carefull when undoing the +ve terminal as its very easy to short it out! A good tip is to wrap your spanner in insulating tape before you start.

[Green3R]

I've never attempted it so I may be talking rubbish here...

I'd say take the negative lead off first. It then doesn't matter if your spanner touches the chassis.
Once the neg is off you're safe to work on the + without the shorting risk

[Juno]

Thanks Guys, new battery this weekend, I will use all the tips given. Any thoughts on battery, weights not an issue as its a road only car!

[Blu3R]

Adrian linked to a Bosch one he fitted a couple of years ago and I followed suit. Can't for the life of me remember which or where or how much though. Any other useless info, you know where I am

Btw Barry did you get my email?

[Adrian W]

Blu3R said:

Adrian linked to a Bosch one he fitted a couple of years ago and I followed suit. Can't for the life of me remember which or where or how much though. Any other useless info, you know where I am

Btw Barry did you get my email?

Bosch 075 silver thing, about £100, if you have a magic Halfords card it is about £50

[Zoobeef]

Got a Bosch silver from halfords with the trade card, was £74.79 down from £99.99

Went tits after a few months from being drained a couple of times and halfords swapped it for a new one.

Got it down to about 20 minutes to swap.
If its not taking a charge try connecting another battery via jump leads then the charger and leave it a while. Some recover but the charger needs to see some volts to get started.