Battery removal?

[ChopChop]

Struggling to get my battery out to change it on a 03 TDi!

How the hell do you get at the clamp on the bottom front of the battery? Are there any other clamps holding it in?

Do the wipers have to be removed? Hope not as mine aren't budging!

Thanks in advance for any advice, ive done a search and come up with ziltch.

[hagis]

This might help:
http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=74522

I'm currently struggling with the same problem!

[Hex69]

Struggling to get my battery out to change it on a 03 TDi!

How the hell do you get at the clamp on the bottom front of the battery? Are there any other clamps holding it in?

Do the wipers have to be removed? Hope not as mine aren't budging!

Thanks in advance for any advice, ive done a search and come up with ziltch.


Look here (http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=74522) and here (http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=75071)

[ChopChop]

Cheers chaps! Off to have another go, glad I'm not the only one strugglling with this! :D

[ChopChop]

And success! Big thanks guys for the links, my skills at using the search are badly lacking.

Half a hedge in the drain plugs, how some people clear them without removing the battery I really don't know!

My socket set 6mm hex was too fat to fit into the skinny gap to get to the clamp, so I had to use a neighbours all-in-one screwdiver set thing which had the necessary bits to work.

The bloody car better start in the morning or I'll have to post a help thread again!

PS good shout on one of those links to use a 'bungee' to hold the loom/sponge out of the way without damaging it!

Also- its worth having a new pollen filter handy to change while you have the car in bits, mine was/is very, very dirty.