Battery help

[brm180]

Hi guys, quite embaressed asking this question but how do you raise the rear bench seat in order to get to battery.

A sheepish thanks brm180

[Nuvo]

There are two phillips screws just below the seat on the carpet. Undo these and remove the bench. Easy peasy.

[brm180]

battery

Thanks, i did actually see them but wasn't sure if there was a hinge or similiar.
Thanks...




brm180

[Nuvo]

The Avant has hinges the coupe doesn't IIRC.

[gnutz2]

Avant has the battery in the boot

[Nuvo]

That's right, I was just mentioning the differences of the rear bench seats between the two.

[amanda]

Hmmmmm my avant doesn't have the battery in the boot so no need to move the child seats

[Jas11n]

Hmmmmm my avant doesn't have the battery in the boot so no need to move the child seats

You haven't got an S2 avant though

[Knight Rider S4]

You had to much sauce Amanda

[ericd]

I'm about to change over the battery (can confirm it's the original been there since 1995), everything nut/bolt still with it's green paint spot, never really noticed before, but old batteries don't have handles to lift them out and the clearance either side looks about 2mm, and even my petite hands struggle to get in , I removed the top bolt and clamp at the rear, does the lower clamp with earth cable attached need to come out to let the battery free, cause I can't see otherwise how its gonna come oot ?

Anybody had similar problems

cheers

[ericd]

anybody ?

[S2central.net]

I did mine a few years back Eric... Sure enough was a squeeze on the fingers but can't recall anything particularly nasty about swapping in a new one. There was indeed a clamp at the bottom though - pretty sure - that needs to come off !

[ericd]

cheers, I've been at it for about an hour , it just that the clamp looks like its stuck down and won't move much either way even if i take the earth cable out

[ericd]

just my luck now the 13mm bolt holding it doesn't want to come out..

[ericd]

got the bolt out, still no joy, looks like you need to lift it completely level, so it doesn't touch the sides, and the dead weight means its pretty difficult as the only things to get hold off are the terminals, spent about an hour "hands-on" trying to free it , but no luck, tried to put a cable cradle under one corner but clearances aren't enough, real PITA to be honest

tn_DSCF0660.jpg this was the bolt that held the earth lead to battery, you cant really see in the pic but it's spot welded or similar to the battery tray

tn_DSCF0661.jpg pretty tight clearance, remembering that there's alip at the bottom of the battery