Searched here and found Chris0r / Clarkey http://217.158.136.46/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13664&highlight=battery which ended up at saying any 12v battery with 500 ah will be fine.

 

And another thread which said J-spec terminals are different size to UK.

 

My battery just died - any other advice?

 

Cheers - Gio

I've got a J-spec and an aftermarket battery (optima jobbie for big stereo), and the standard terminals fit the battery posts without any problems.

 

HTH

Thank you kind sir,

 

let's see what ATS come up with tomorrow (they're round the corner).

 

Typically, I was faced with the idea of cancelling the trip to the pub and persuading the Mrs to take us to Harry's or saying sodit, it's too effing windy, I'll deal with it tomorrow.

 

Which do you think happened?

lol:D

 

hmmmm, I wonder!!

Apparently the Xantia needs a battery no, so isntread of buying a new one for that, i reckon i should get one of those really cool BOSCH ones like big mac has for the zed and put the skanky one back on the xantia hehe. I got some really cool gold terminals in the garage too so they will go on :)

Just a watchout warning, the listing for the 300ZX in the FIAMM book used by ATS is wrong.

 

The terminals are the wrong way round (i.e. +ve to the right and -ve to the left). I find this out after a taxi ride to the wrong side of Slough (is there a right side?).

 

I get home in the fading light and plip the remote. Which now only sets off the siren because there isn't enough power left in the main battery to unlock the doors.

 

tsk

 

Manually unlock the door and thank buddha that bit works.

 

Pop the bonnet and compare old and new batteries. Curses - the terminals are the wrong way round. Futilely fiddle with wires just to see if they could stretch to the wrong battery terminals. Nope. Phone ATS. Hmm - they say - let me furkle around in the batttery store, I'll call you back.

 

Aha! Why not get the old battery out just to check for size and then all I have to do is pop the new one in tomorrow? Good idea.

 

Attack the nuts on the terminals just as the sun sets.

 

The discovery that the alarm battery siren activates after you disconnect the battery is startling since I have my head under the bonnet - I recoil backwards and nearly tread on my glasses.

 

The remote is back in the kitchen so run in and plip it. Nothing.

 

So I jam the lead back on to the terminal and read the instruction manual for the alarm. Written in perfect Italglish (oe Engian) I think it is saying that this feature can only be disarmed with the engine running - and I can't start the fecking thing because the flipping battery's flat.

 

At least I can get the metal strap off to be ready for a rapid changeover in between blasts on the siren. Oh grief it's one of these fiddly ones.

 

Lean over to attack this bit and their is a "beep" from somewhere. Sh*t - what have I done now? "biddly beep" - nope, terminals are on so alarm shouldn't have gone off. "biddley biddley beep" - ramming my thumb on the remote has no effect.

 

"biddley, biddley...." ooops, that'll be my mobile then..... It's ATS riging back cos they've found the right one.

 

Can get the front vertical hold-down out but not the back one.

 

It is now dark and I think I have given my neighbours quite enough amusement for one night. So I give up and feed the cats.

 

Can't change a battery but at least I can please the moggies!

Well not only did ATS ring back with the right one but also just now turned up to deliver it - and fitted it and took the old duff one (the battery not andy) away.

 

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