Hi all,

Apologies if this is a bit of a beginners post... My last car was a Favorit Blackline and I could work on that... This Fabia just has a great sheet of plastic covering the engine bay!

The battery on my 03 Fabia 1.4 8v died last night (electrics still work but the car won't start)... I tried charging it up but it hasn't held its charge so a replacement is called for. (At 4 years old I guess that it is about due).

I'll stop off at my local motor factors tonight but having read the dire warnings in the handbook and done a search on these forums it seems that there is more to this than meets the eye).

Is a simple thing like a battery swap a dealer job nowadays???

A couple of questions:

1). How do I get the old battery out of the plastic bucket it sits in! There are no obvious fixings holding it in there.

2). If I were to charge a spare battery and connect it up to the car while I change the battery thus keeping the electronics live would that solve any potential problems.

Thanks for any advice.

Paul.

there is a clamp at the base of the battery with one bolt (13mm iirc), remove that and the battery should lift out. I plugged a spare battery into the cig lighter during changeover, no fault codes appeared. My neighbour works at an auto electrical factor - they will no longer change customers batteries because of all the grief with fault codes/non - starting after change.

Cheers for the advice... Changed the battery this weekend with the help of a "memory keeper" borrowed from a friend... Neat bit of kit, no error codes or channels lost from the radio.

Paul.

Cheers for the advice... Changed the battery this weekend with the help of a "memory keeper" borrowed from a friend... Neat bit of kit, no error codes or channels lost from the radio.

Paul.

Sounds like a nice gadget to have, anyone got a price / dealer for one?

Edit: just realised, it only works on cars:rolleyes:

hi -

had to change my battery a while back - no problems - ecu has its own battery back up - you could also check the power steering level with the battery out as it is underneath the battery holder - would have thought skoda would have made it a bit more accessable -

Sounds like a nice gadget to have, anyone got a price / dealer for one?

Edit: just realised, it only works on cars:rolleyes:

The "memory-keeper" I borrowed was a "Sealy" piece of kit for battery charge regulation as well... Cost about