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B attery Replacement

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#1 ·
Out of the blue my battery died yesterday on my 01.5 passat.
Does anyone have any suggestions on a new battery and is it NECESARRY for the stealership to rest whatevber it is they say they want 100 bucks to reset??
 
#7 ·
If you don't touch the throttle body mounting screws or spray anything in there, you don't need to do an adaptation.

Pull the old battery, put in a new one and get back on the road. It's that simple.
 
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What do you guys do to your batteries?? I still have the orig Moll now on it's 54th month/48kmi of usage in my '00 variant. It still cranks fine even at 42* LA mornings.

With annual maintenance doses of distilled H20/battery additive and frequent vw solar panel charges...I wonder when my battery finally goes out on me. :weirdo:
 
#11 ·
B5V said:
It still cranks fine even at 42* LA mornings.
Hmmm. Not too surprizing, really. A battery that lives in LA hardly ever sees high temps (vs most places in the South or Great Plains) and never sees cold temps. (The HIGH today here was 42F -- and it is still early November). And the original Moll battery is still in my wife's '00 Variant.

The OEM battery in my MR2 lasted 6 years. It finally wouldn't hold a charge after the 4th winter storage cycle. I now keep an electronic trickle charger on the battery.
 
#13 ·
The Swami said:
Some shops even have a small device that's connected to the cigarette lighter so the car doesn't lose the radio settings.

I highly recommend the good old Interstate MTP-91 as a replacement battery for V6 and 1.8T Passats. :thumbup:
Johnson controls owns Interstate, Optima and they produce the batteries for sears & autozone and walmart. How much you wanna bet that the group 48 batteries for Interstate, Sears and Autozone & other brands are exactly the same battery?

Dave
 
#14 ·
crew217 said:
The Swami said:
Some shops even have a small device that's connected to the cigarette lighter so the car doesn't lose the radio settings.

I highly recommend the good old Interstate MTP-91 as a replacement battery for V6 and 1.8T Passats. :thumbup:
Johnson controls owns Interstate, Optima and they produce the batteries for sears & autozone and walmart. How much you wanna bet that the group 48 batteries for Interstate, Sears and Autozone & other brands are exactly the same battery?

Dave
I'd take that bet!

As in appliances, Sears sells more batteries than anybody else. They can -- and do -- specify tweaks for their models (even if they are one-offs of the supplier's version). And independent tests show real performance differences as well.
 
#15 ·
When i purchased my Autozone battery I went to sears first and got the specs . . . same EXACT specs as on my Autozone battery. Both batteries are manufactured by johnson controls . . . I highly doubt 800 CCA's differ between the same manufacturer
 
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#17 ·
I put in an Optima red top about 6 months ago. Despite what some have said, it fits fine with no cable mods. I did have to fabricate a simple holddown for it. Optimas are brutes that seem to last forever. The one in the racecar sits all winter and never fails to fire up the engine in spring.
 
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