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kerblangyesterday at 4:26 PM4 repliesview on HN

Try replacing the battery. Seems accessible enough at first, but ingenious engineering has made batteries the modern rubik's cube of auto maintenance.


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maury91yesterday at 5:06 PM

I have a 2009 Citroen and the battery is secured with a bolt that is under the battery compartment and to access it you need to go under the car with a very long wrench, who engineered it is a psycho

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RaftPeopleyesterday at 10:26 PM

My wife had a Chrysler Sebring.

The battery is in a compartment in the left front wheel well. You have to remove that wheel to access the battery.

I was instantly impressed by the pure creativity and artistic expression the team employed for that design.

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paulddraperyesterday at 10:39 PM

I’ve replaced many batteries over the past two decades with no problems.

All of them have been in Ford (or Saturn).

benayesterday at 4:33 PM

Define "modern". I have a 2017 Civic and I've had to replace the battery a couple of times. There's a holding bar that needs to be removed before the battery can be taken out, but other than that the only real problem is the weight of the thing.

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