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koolkorsa
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4th Jan 04 at 23:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
my battery gone dead second time in a month or so. So i'm gonna get a new one now. Is it just a matter of unscrewing the neg and pos wires and swapping the battery? or is there more to it, my dad aint home to tell me how to do it thats all.
drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
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4th Jan 04 at 23:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
why have two gone in the last month? Are you sure your altenator is alright? If so, yeah, its just a matter of swapping them over and safely disposing of the old one.
CorsaLad16v
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4th Jan 04 at 23:17   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i think its just the same battery thats gone dead twice thats what i read it like in his post ne way
koolkorsa
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4th Jan 04 at 23:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yer same one gone twice in month. Can i get diff capacity battery's that mite last longer?
PaulW
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4th Jan 04 at 23:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
aye ya can get uprated ones, but they come at an extra cost...

probs the cold weather which is killing it, is it the one which was in the car since new? how old is the car?
drunkenfool
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4th Jan 04 at 23:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
sorry its been a long day! Get a battery for a diesel corsa, same size so will fit in the bay, but larger capacity. I think they are about £40
Tiger
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4th Jan 04 at 23:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
koolkorsa - it sounds like you have an earth leakage fault somewhere on your car thats causing constant drain on your battery - are you running any ICE coz that might be causing it - a faulty REM lead to your amp or something like that.........you should take it to an Auto-electrician and get him to clamp your battery lead - that'll tell you if its leaking to earth.

I had the problem on one of my cars and was getting through batterys like no tomorrow - what ive just explained was the problem - in my case my ICE.
Tiger
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4th Jan 04 at 23:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
As for changing the battery - take off the NEGATIVE first................
drunkenfool
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4th Jan 04 at 23:30   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
surely you should take off the positive first so no charge is being sent to the car??
DanielJ
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4th Jan 04 at 23:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
thas wa i fort, but bens a sparky sooooo. neway hows things m8, hows oz goin
leafgreencorsa
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5th Jan 04 at 13:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Deff take off earth lead first and re-connect last. Not sure of the reason why but guess it's down to the risk of a short circuit if something is dropped between the positive terminal and car whilst the battery is still earthed.

Make sure you know the code of any ICE or alarm that may need to be re-set after disconnecting the battery. Clock will also need to be re-set of course.
koolkorsa
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5th Jan 04 at 14:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
dun it now. hardest bit was undoing that bloody bolt holding the battery down. wat an awkward place to put it. i havent bothered doing it up again, will my battery be alrite or mite i move around to much now?
DanielJ
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5th Jan 04 at 14:58   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
do it up
drunkenfool
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5th Jan 04 at 15:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by DanielJ
do it up
DanielJ
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5th Jan 04 at 15:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
sick sick man
drunkenfool
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5th Jan 04 at 15:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
?!?! I was agreeing with you, but couldnt be arsed to use the keyboard and tried to find the most appropriate smiley!
DanielJ
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big eck
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5th Jan 04 at 15:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
You may need to reset the leccy windows if you've got them
Kris TD
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5th Jan 04 at 15:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
get a diesel battery, mine cost 35 quid made by lucas.
koolkorsa
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5th Jan 04 at 18:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
that fucking screw holding the battery down is so hard to do tho, the battery aint likely to roll about the bonnet is it!?
Richie
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5th Jan 04 at 18:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Its a nut just use an extension bar and socket. Trust me you are gonna want that battery secured.
koolkorsa
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5th Jan 04 at 19:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
alrite just bit tight in there, i'll do it 2moz then.
Richie
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5th Jan 04 at 19:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
last thing you want it the power for the block coming off while driving due to the battery tugging away at it

 
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