Battery removal - Chim 400

[Jay_999]

I'm about to remove the battery & it looks as if it could be interesting! Does anyone have any tips??

Thanks

Justin Warner

[redgriff]

Undo the connections and clamp. Lift battery out with hands.

[Preston1990]

Check out the following link. Hope its of use!

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/shpub/Griff_Chimp_sample.html

Don't be put off it really is quite simple - took me about 30 mins to get old one out and new one in, and i'm no mechanic!!

Regards

Preston1990 (Complete TVR postcard collection one day!)




Edited by Preston1990 on Saturday 12th January 17:46

[NoisyGriff]

Top tip.
Draw lines on the fibre glass floor with a permi-marker where the battery box meets the floow. Then, when you put it back in and line up the marks (make lateral marks too), the screws will just glide in from underneath.
Or do what I did the first time (went through a phase of leaving the door ajar every night for about a week): Don't make marks and then spend about an hour shouting at my sodding car (obviously car's fault).
Have fun.

[steveab]

With risk of security alert. What puts me off, is disconnecting the alarm. I assume if you disarm the car correctly (ie as you do normally to drive the car) then you can disconnect the power to the alarm - no hassles. However, I guess, if you disconnect the alarm when its armed - volia wake up time.

Thanks

Steve

[Jason F]

My alarm doesn't really care what I do, it either decides to go off or it behaves itself.

With regards to fitting a battery, I spent twenty minutes upside down in the footwell to get the battery in, but then I am crap at that sort of thing