Rotating the battery?

[Juddder]

Just checking but my battery (*as far as I can remember) has always had the negative terminal nestled under the passenger side wing of the car, and the positive terminal nearer the engine - where there is an access hole in the scuttle panel, but not in the correct place for the battery terminal

Is that correct?

The reason to ask is it's basically a pain to have to take the scuttle panel off, and the washer jets, slide the battery out over the whatever-they-are metal pipes just to be able to disconnect the negative terminal to leave the car for a few days / weeks

What I'd like to do is rotate the battery 180 degrees, and have the negative nearer the engine so that potentially you can either cut a whole in the access panel, or ideally be able to reach to disconnect the negative without all of the above paint potential scratching drama

Anyone done similar or any obvious downsides to doing this (bar potentially having the positive terminal more exposed to the elements)?

Many thanks Alex

[Scrump]

Not difficult to fit a battery cut out switch which would be easier each time you isolate the car.

[phillpot]

Scrump said:

Not difficult to fit a battery cut out switch which would be easier each time you isolate the car.

That's the way to do it


or take +ve cable off

[LLantrisant]

Juddder asked about the position of the battery...and the reply is "fit a battery cut-off switch"....so his question was not answered.

cut-off switch: each time battery its isolated--> the engine ECU, the Window/Door ECU, the Alarm/central-locking ECU has to self-adapt its status again.....so not the best idea...better use a battery charger constantly connected when car is in garage.

the original battery positioning is the following:

the plus-terminal is facing towards front. in the scuttle panel is a moulded opening to have access to the plus terminal.
on my car the plus terminal perfectly sits centred and accesible on the hole of the panel.
looks like you may have the wrong size battery fitted?

theoretically , it doesnt matter if you remove the plus or the minus to isolate the car from the battery.
its just a matter to take care when working with a spanner on the plus terminal, not touching anything grounded.

[ridds]

LLantrisant said:

Juddder asked about the position of the battery...and the reply is "fit a battery cut-off switch"....so his question was not answered.

cut-off switch: each time battery its isolated--> the engine ECU, the Window/Door ECU, the Alarm/central-locking ECU has to self-adapt its status again.....so not the best idea...better use a battery charger constantly connected when car is in garage.

the original battery positioning is the following:

the plus-terminal is facing towards front. in the scuttle panel is a moulded opening to have access to the plus terminal.
on my car the plus terminal perfectly sits centred and accesible on the hole of the panel.
looks like you may have the wrong size battery fitted?

theoretically , it doesnt matter if you remove the plus or the minus to isolate the car from the battery.
its just a matter to take care when working with a spanner on the plus terminal, not touching anything grounded.

This, +ve is accessible so that you can put a jump lead on it and the the -ve jump lead on decent ground on the car (I use the airbox brackets).

There's no issue with popping off the +ve terminal, providing your spanner touches nothing metal (been there done that, got hosed down in the middle of December to wash off the Acid), which is low risk on a Cerbera.

Even if you did rotate the battery, you're still taking the panel off to get the terminal off properly I would have thought.

A battery isolator switch would however negate all of the "cutting fibreglass" side of things.

Electronics on Cerberas are dumb, Alarm and Windows care not, ECU fuelling adaptives have to be hard cleared.