acadias4

battery dead after about 4 months...some may cringe at this but here it goes...jumped car for about 15minutes and nothing-no juice to even crank, however was showing about 13v. Finally turned over after about 20minutes and damn those cables were hot...

Let idle for another 10minutes and then took to the streets for a slow, easy warm up..Oil temp was up to normal operating temp, still taking it easy and began to scrub the rotors a bit with 4-5 progressive stops from about 20mph up to 50mph.

After those stops & on way back home notice ESP light on as well as ABS...stayed on all way back home and when arrived & let idle again...and turned car off.

Out of curiouisty tried to re-start and nothing...

...I chalked that up to a dead battery and was reason for ESP & ABS lights on while driving...

Any advice on new battery & install?


Thanks

dscottjr

d/c the battery to prevent drainage), pulled the fuel pump fuse and turned the engine over for at least 10secs or so to pre-oil the engine.

you need to d/c the terminals, remove the plastic trim piece by pulling the weather stripping forward then the plastic piece itself, then remove the lower windshield plastic cover, then remove the clamp on the pass side of the battery, then pull the battery up.

acadias4

Another noob question...what kind of battery to replace with??

dscottjr

has one that fits, IIRC. Odyssey's can be found online. I have a Odyssey 925.

acadias4

Thanks. Much appreciated...