New Age Cars: Battery Replacement

[JustEmptyEveryPocket]

I was watching videos and came across THIS ONE. ~40 minutes to replace the battery! WTH?   Well it obviously takes that long since we are supposed to remove the rear seats.   

 

Just throwing it out for laughs, but man this seems stupid. I will NEVER own a car past ~2000. Preferably I am gonna stay sub 1995!

[89 MJ]

I’m currently 16 and live in WI. I plan to move where there isn’t salt used on the roads as soon as I can do I can drive older vehicles that can be fixed easier every day for this reason. 

[ComancheKid45]

Yep seems like model year 2000 all the auto makers began going downhill..... everyone has opinons, but I am really not impressed by new vehicles at all, I'm a hammer and wrench kinda guy, not so much modules and programming...

[jdog]

Even worse is now there are two batteries in most vehicles

[Comanchejess]

6 hours ago, JustEmptyEveryPocket said:

I was watching videos and came across THIS ONE. ~40 minutes to replace the battery! WTH?   Well it obviously takes that long since we are supposed to remove the rear seats.   

 

Just throwing it out for laughs, but man this seems stupid. I will NEVER own a car past ~2000. Preferably I am gonna stay sub 1995!

I just recently bought an 08 mercury sable to get me around while I'm getting my 87 MJ squared away, and doing anything on that car besides an oil change has been a massive headache.

[JustEmptyEveryPocket]

18 hours ago, jdog said:

two batteries in most vehicles

Why? I understand the diesel application needing more, but new cars?

[jdog]

Start stop and electronics

[FrankTheDog]

My 2018 Hyundai Accent has everything where it belongs. Also has 3 pedals and six speeds.

[scguy]

Plenty of dumb battery locations.

A lot of the cab forward Chryslers required removal of a front wheel and fender liner.

Saturn Sky requires removal of the RF fender.

A lot are in the trunk now, along with coolers, subwoofers, random dirty clothes and half eaten food.

[FrankTheDog]

5 minutes ago, scguy said:

Plenty of dumb battery locations.

A lot of the cab forward Chryslers required removal of a front wheel and fender liner.

 

Yeah, that one baffled me on my daughters first car.

Where did they put that damn thing!?!!

I had never seen anything like it before.

[Pete M]

I've got an '06 Liberty and it's amazing how many of the fancy-schmancy things can be broken and it still putters along.   I was collecting lights on the dash until I decided to just tape over the leds. 

[gogmorgo]

Now imagine you’re hunting around for them outside in the dark at -40 so you can disconnect the frozen battery before you set the thing on fire boosting it. 

[erandel]

5 hours ago, scguy said:

Plenty of dumb battery locations.

A lot of the cab forward Chryslers required removal of a front wheel and fender liner.

Saturn Sky requires removal of the RF fender.

A lot are in the trunk now, along with coolers, subwoofers, random dirty clothes and half eaten food.

They are being too optimistic, irrelevantly.

[75sv1]

Yeh, my '75 Bricklin has the battery behind the driver's seat. What were they thinking?  No, heat from the engine, 48/52 balance. Why my '15 Volt has two batteries? OK, its sort of electric.

[coolwind57]

15 minutes ago, 75sv1 said:

Yeh, my '75 Bricklin has the battery behind the driver's seat. What were they thinking?  No, heat from the engine, 48/52 balance. Why my '15 Volt has two batteries? OK, its sort of electric.

 

I'm a big fan of the Bricklin.  Once I bought #360 via on-line...drove out and promptly pulled out of the deal.  It was beyond unsalvagable. 

 

Which one you have?  

     

[coolwind57]

Location, location, location....

 

Years ago, my brother had an 84 Vette.  If I recall correctly, he was telling me that the Vette was easily stolen because all you had to do to disable the alarm system was stab through the driver's side fender, just forward of the door.  Jab a knife through the fiberglass skin and thus through the battery which sat right next to it on the other side. 

 

Then, just wait for the battery to bleed out.

 

Not sure how feasible that would be in reality, but kinda sounds legit.  

 

[75sv1]

15 minutes ago, coolwind57 said:

 

I'm a big fan of the Bricklin.  Once I bought #360 via on-line...drove out and promptly pulled out of the deal.  It was beyond unsalvagable. 

 

Which one you have?  

     

I have 2758. 100 from the last one off the official production.

[coolwind57]

42 minutes ago, 75sv1 said:

I have 2758. 100 from the last one off the official production.

Very cool.  If you weren't aware, yours was one of the 287 1975 models bought by Bill Byers when the company went under.  It was load #18 on the trip to Columbus, OH from the factory along with 6 other Bricklins.  

 

http://bricklin-sv-1-build-history.com/custom4_1.html

 

if you have converted to air doors, then I suppose your battery no longer has to work so hard.  Those hydraulic doors really pushed the limits of 1975-era batteries.    

[75sv1]

I read that list, as mine was off the line before Beyers bought the inventory. From my conversations with people who were there, some were just missing a part or two. Sort of a steering wheel, then so on down the line.  It does seem from the bottom of that page Beyers owned the remaining cars at any dealership. I did not know that. 

     Mine has air doors. I converted then back in '87 or so. I did have the hydraulics for a while. I had about two shots to get it started. I then stuffed in the largest battery that would fit. Some improvement. Air doors so much better.  I need to upgrade to the electronic air pump. I want to see if I can come up with an air reservoir to fit up in the frame channel between the battery box and the air door selonid box.   Reduce weight and center the weight. I was told there is a reservoir in the front bumper, that was planned for the air doors. They also designed a setup like the DeLorean. DeLorean was an initial supplier. 

[Pete M]

5 minutes ago, 75sv1 said:

I read that list, as mine was off the line before Beyers bought the inventory. From my conversations with people who were there, some were just missing a part or two. Sort of a steering wheel, then so on down the line.  It does seem from the bottom of that page Beyers owned the remaining cars at any dealership. I did not know that. 

     Mine has air doors. I converted then back in '87 or so. I did have the hydraulics for a while. I had about two shots to get it started. I then stuffed in the largest battery that would fit. Some improvement. Air doors so much better.  I need to upgrade to the electronic air pump. I want to see if I can come up with an air reservoir to fit up in the frame channel between the battery box and the air door selonid box.   Reduce weight and center the weight. I was told there is a reservoir in the front bumper, that was planned for the air doors. They also designed a setup like the DeLorean. DeLorean was an initial supplier. 

 

you need to start a build thread for it

[Blue XJ]

23 hours ago, 75sv1 said:

Yeh, my '75 Bricklin has the battery behind the driver's seat. What were they thinking?  No, heat from the engine, 48/52 balance. Why my '15 Volt has two batteries? OK, its sort of electric.

 

 

That's where it was on my Vette too, right behind the driver's seat in a little in-floor compartment.

 

I relocated mine in the Comanche to the tool box I had in the bed, no more heat soak, and it took care of my hot restart issues.