Cappo wrote:

With the bonnet in maintenance position .......

get some one to hold the bonnet while you take either the top or bottom end of both rams off, once the rams are disconnected lift the bonnet to the vertical position. on the hinges you will see a pivot latch which need turning and lifting over the saftey niple to hold the bonnet in place. simples

I fitted the Varta 110ah/920cca on Saturday. Engine turns over nice and bags of power.

To put bonnet in service mode open it normally. Remove small clip at bottom of gas strut and pry strut off - came off easy with a flat screwdriver. Do both sides.
Raise up almost vertical then on each hinge there is a small tab which you push over a securing lug - one each side - this holds the bonnet up.
Reverse process to put it back to normal - a good tip is the clips go back on from bottom of the strut up don't try and push them straight on as it just gets very frustrating  2006 MY Autobiography. With 'toys'
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I would have lost far less skin off the back of my hands if I had known that!!

Paul

Cheers guys - I just fitted my new Bosch S5 in about 10 minutes - 10 pm at night & freezing outside - would have taken at least an hour with much swearing without this thread.

scarey wrote:

...and thats a no quibble guarantee as well...brought mine in 2010 and last year it started to play up so they exchanged it without any messing...

Scarey where did you buy your battery from to get the 'no quibble' exchange? Am struggling loads with battery2u about my Varta I!, only 16 months old

Am seriously considering buying a new one from a local place so any issues I cna simply take it back and plonk it on their counter.... Cheapest local to me is ECP £133 for the Bosch Silver S5

got mine from eurocarparts ...t24res reckons they are giving a discount [15%?] at the moment....

they didnt even check it [obviously they checked the receipt] and just exchanged it ... ... - .- -.




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They weren't on Monday when I got mine - but I thought £133 was a pretty good price anyway

''battery15'' discount code ....that is what it says on their web site.
cost £113.17 with discount and free delivery if you havnt got a depot near you.. ... - .- -.




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typical - that's what you get for walking intothe branch and saving them the effort of delivering

scarey wrote:

got mine from eurocarparts ...t24res reckons they are giving a discount [15%?] at the moment....

they didnt even check it [obviously they checked the receipt] and just exchanged it ...

first thing to do when the battery is fitted , is to turn the steering wheel full lock left and then full lock right, this sets the steering parameters ..

re the battery drain, there's a thread or two talking about this .. ... - .- -.




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Well, 2 years on from fitting the new Varta, and with the colder starts, I get the bastard HDC Inactive greeting each morning. Not starting problems yet, but I guess regular use helps with this. Was hoping for more life than this, maybe a warm cosy garage, and electric blanket or a trickle charge unit is the answer? .
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OK. Got the Bosch S5 from Europarts with the 25% discount and next day delivery. Whilst I was waiting got the Bonnet in access mode. Dead easy thanks to tips about getting the clips off the snap on studs at the bottom of the gas struts. Push them down to get them off and up the grooves to put them back on.

Got the old battery out easily enough. Amazingly the Yodel delivery man offered to help me put the battery in. That was great and it went in easily. But..... and now I had the same problem as many others: I could not get the positive terminal on because of the pyro charge attachment which goes down the side of the battery.

I struggled for hours trying all sorts including lifting both ends, pushing the battery as far to the right as it would go and trying to bend back the side of the battery tray. I finally settled on lifting it by putting some 2" blocks underneath. This worked fine and both positive and earth terminals went on easily. Only problem now is that the battery hold down brackets don't reach high enough to grab the base lip of the battery.

As a temporary measure I cobbled up a bracket held down by the old bracket which extends up and over the new battery. It works but it looks a bit silly.

Any ideas on:
1) which trick I failed to do to get the battery seated properly. No matter what I was always about 5mm short of being able to get the side part of the positive terminal inside the compartment.
2) any ideas on a better battery hold down?

Bottom line is that the RR is up and running with the new battery but I am flummoxed as to how others managed to fit the Bosch in to a 2007 TDV8 with the pyro charge attachment.  2012 5.0L S/C
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