Replacement battery

[paul1962]

Hi,

It looks like I need to replace the battery on my 2006 Vantage - it's still got the original so not done too bad.

Local dealer wants around £380, £260 for the battery and £120 labour as "it'll need reprogramming"/teaching or something similar and that if I changed it myself I'd still end up taking it to them to be taught.

Seems a bit expensive to me, or is that the going rate ?

Tempted to change it myself but I just wanted to be 100% sure there is nothing which will require it going back to the dealers ?

Thanks

[ChilliWhizz]

Replaced mine in October last year, battery was around £140 from Halfreds, took me a couple of hours faffing about, tea breaks etc. Everything worked fine after replacing, just a bit of contortion required in the somewhat confined space.... They also do a life time guarantee jobbie for around £180...... 07 MY Vantage.....

Richard.

Edited to add, there's a 'how to' link in the FAQ's above

Edited by ChilliWhizz on Monday 21st August 11:33

[Graze01]

Chilli

Did you have any problems with folding mirrors not resetting themselves or windows needing re learning?

When I disconnected mine to change the steering wheel they both went haywire

Graeme

[Graze01]

Chilli

Did you have any problems with folding mirrors not resetting themselves or windows needing re learning?

When I disconnected mine to change the steering wheel they both went haywire

Graeme

[ChilliWhizz]

Hi Graeme, no issues after battery replacement as I recall... in the thread linked in the FAQ it says you can preserve settings by keeping the battery conditioner plugged in in the boot socket whilst replacing the battery, although I didn't do that...

[paul1962]

Now that Graeme has mentioned it I had problems last year when the battery went flat.

I had to re-teach the windows which is easy enough but re-enabling the mirrors to auto-fold can only be done by a dealer on early cars ?

I'll be sure to keep a power source on the car before removing the old battery.

[telum01]

Keep a trickle charger on the car, press the power disconnect button, then replace the battery. Shouldn't need to reset/relearn/reprogram anything. If you do, they just need to reactivate your folding mirrors if you have those. You can reset the windows yourself if necessary.

[Jibberingloon]

Folding mirrors on earlier cars need to get reprogrammed at an Indi or Dealers.

If the battery dies or disconneted....

[graham 500]

Just replaced battery on mine Bosch 100ah S5 013 took me half hour. I knew what to do cause I replaced battery just under 4 years ago. Fortunately got receipt from Costco and they refunded me fill amount without even seeing battery.

[graham 500]

Forgot to say, i didn't need to reset anything, all mentioned items working fine. I did make sure that as soon as I disconnected old one the new battery was re connected within a minute, not sure if that's why.