Battery...

Titanium S1 111S (gla) · Post by **Titanium S1 111S (gla)** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:15 pm

The only difficult bit about switching the battery over is getting the little nuts and bolts out of the under tray after you have dropped them.

Give it a go.

If you need a hand give me a shout, will only take 5mins.

Graham

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:33 pm

Titanium S1 111S (gla) wrote: If you need a hand give me a shout, will only take 5mins.

Graham

I have never yet found a 5 min job that takes 5 mins, an hour and 5 minutes I'll give you....

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:15 am

my 5 minute job - replacing the idle control value last night took about 1 hour! lots off fiddling about and making tools out of things i found in the kitchen! lol

ninja

Titanium S1 111S (gla) · Post by **Titanium S1 111S (gla)** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:38 am

Like I said Rich, 5 mins to change the battery, 1 hour to fish the nuts and bolts out of the under carriage.

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:43 am

ninja wrote:my 5 minute job - replacing the idle control value last night took about 1 hour! lots off fiddling about and making tools out of things i found in the kitchen! lol

ninja

That I don't understand, it the only bloody item on the car you can get to FFS! BTW I have 2 sets of splined drives that fit the IACV if anyone needs them...

skellyjohn · Post by **skellyjohn** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:41 am

Just a quick update on the battery....

I took my car to my mechanic friend. We both huffed and puffed and pulled out the dud in less than 10mins.

Stuck in the new one (5 mins).

"Start it up..."

click. . . click. . . click...

Halfords managed to sell me a battery with 9 volts left in it!

Back to the shop, swapped - after checking it - stuck in the car.

Total time from opening the front bonnet to starting the car again: 1 hour!