Why does'nt anything fit?

[Bren]

Bought replacement battery for the fiesta - despite fitting in it's box it is too tall for the restraining strap which fits over the top.

 

If the car where to roll it would drop out, more so if the bonnet opened.

 

I double checked with the supplier - it is the correct battery for the car.

 

TBH I have had this problem before where the correct battery is different from the original, and the clamps cannot be used.

 

Is everything wrong/ crap these days?

[Timewaster]

Yes

[derskine]

^

[HillmanImp]

PATTERN PARTS:

 

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[HillmanImp]

Just looking at those photos they seem to be out of order but at the same time not. Why has filler appeared and disappeared? But why would I have put filler on and then taken it off? 

 

Fuck knows really.

 

Anyhow pattern parts are shite. 

 

*EDIT* Just remembered, I sorted out the vertical angle only to realise that the line did not match up with the back panel so had to cut it again and redo it, so have reordered the photos. 

[alf892]

Simple answer ......your supplier is a fool and has given you the wrong battery.

 

It's not like it would fit some and not others.

 

Go somewhere else.

[fordperv]

  On 23/11/2014 at 17:51, HillmanImp said:

 

Anyhow pattern parts are shite.

Yep they are I've seen some right horrible stuff when I was in the parts supplying trade.

 

But if that's all you can get, the extra graft is worth it

[Craig the Princess]

We bought a 015 battery online and an 077 turned up. We rang up as the terminals were square not round and the battery was too tall.

Oh, it is the same and we can send you some terminal adapters. No, a refund please. Batteries should not be this difficult.

[saucedoctor]

More and more stuff seems to getting to be half-arsed. I got Frontline bottom (frontbottom?)arms for the Rover. Not cheap shit by any means. Yet they weren't quite right, and I had to do a fair bit of fucking about with the tie rods to get them on. Also, I've just got less than 2700 miles out of a track rod end, which is now knackered. Also from Frontline (although I did get a grovelling apology, a new TRE and a cheque).

 

The Bosch battery I got for the Volvo was a ballache to get fitted correctly. The tray has a wee curled-over lip on it which the battery "foot" goes under. I had to open up the curve to get the battery to seat properly.

 

The pattern front wing I got for the Meriva I was tarting up got fucked in a skip. There was no way it was gonna fit, it was simply too small. My tame bodywork chap looked at it, from about 15 feet away and said "Load of shit, mate. Dump it."

[Noel Tidybeard]

what number is battery supplied?

[Noel Tidybeard]

use this to check- just disregard the first digit ie YBX 5063 which gives you a 063 etc

 

http://batterylookupgb.yuasa.co.uk/

[Uncle Jimmy]

Go all the way, hammer a battery 'bulge' into the back bonnet and get cool points.

[PiperCub]

Things have certainly got worse in the past few years.

The common lame excuse 'People won't pay for high quality parts' is getting old and is bollox in the first place. What's the point of paying for something that doesn't really do the job? (So paying twice if you have to get another that does the job).

[mercrocker]

^^The purveyors of alleged parts for Morris Minors trot this out when you question the shiteness of what they sell.   All very well but there AINT NO alternative "Quality" parts.  Fecking hoses don't fit then don't last, one of the front wings I tried made the car look like Dumbo, an indicator switch not only failed to fit properly it lasted about 47 right hand turns etc etc.  Stuff is jes Shi---eeeet these days.   Glad I haven't got a whole car made of the fecking stuff.

[Junkman]

Made in China.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Fiesta ? Try to find a battery that fits a first-generation MX5 ! The correct AGM-type batteries are £100, anything cheaper won't fit properly and may leak acidic fumes that will bugger the boot floor within a couple of months !

 

And this was a car designed in the 1980s... It wouldn't surprise me the least if I found out that modern cars need a £500 battery and a dealership-only ECU re-programming whenever it's replaced !

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

  On 24/11/2014 at 13:15, Sigmund Fraud said:

And this was a car designed in the 1980s... It wouldn't surprise me the least if I found out that modern cars need a £500 battery and a dealership-only ECU re-programming whenever it's replaced !

 

Prepare to not be surprised.

 

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Regardless of whether you upgrade your battery for a higher capacity one or do a like-for-like swap, you do have to tell the ECU that you have put a new battery in. The reason for this is because our cars have IBS (Intelligent Battery Sensor). Not only does IBS monitor how much charge there is in the battery, but also charges the battery differently as it ages. The older the battery gets, the more IBS will charge it to keep it topped up. Replacing the battery for a new one and not telling IBS is new could potentially result in overcharging of the new battery and shortening its life expectancy.

Anyway, registering the battery can be done using DIS/GT1 or EDIBIAS Toolset32, however I couldn't get either of these set up very easily, so I tried out a new tool called BMWLogger. It has some freebie functions, one of which is to register a new battery.

 

http://forums.m3cutters.co.uk/showthread.php?t=86665

 

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this is because our cars have IBS

 

Irritable Battery Syndrome

[mouseflakes]

  On 24/11/2014 at 14:36, Conrad D. Conelrad said:

Irritable Battery Syndrome

 

Is that the one that causes a lot of back-firing?

[nisfan]

This is autoshite, why are people buying new batteries? You should be getting them from the scrappies like i do!

[mercrocker]

^^Prolly last longer!   The Cowley came from the scrapyard with a battery they were using to try and get it running.   Its still in it.   Three years later, I haven't charged it yet, either.   Already doing better than the Halfrauds one I bought new, then.   One of my Mercs had the original battery when it was 15 years old, too.   Mind you, I think that may have been parked up for a good few of those.  It died almost immediately after I got it.

[Barry Cade]

Me Volvo's got 2 batteries. 1 in the engine bay- a fancy AGM one, then another in behind the bumper to run everything whilst stopped in stop start. I know that much 'cos I read it in the handbook, more than that I just stick my fingers in my ears and hum quietly..  The X1/9 has a the original battery out of a Saab 9-3 cos it was better than the one that was in it,but it is still 16 years old..

[Forty-two]

I like this site, it reminds me of stuff that I had long forgotten.  I once offered to pick up a 2nd hand battery for a Maestro I was driving off and on, I was told the scrap yard was the best place to get a decent cheap battery.  Me at the time not knowing car batteries came in different shapes and sizes simply picked one that looked the newest.

 

Got back with the battery and proudly presented a battery that didn't under the bonnet of the Maestro.  This was not a problem for the owner of the car, the battery lived in the passenger foot well and jump leads were simply run from the battery to the dead battery under the bonnet.  The jump leads were shut in the door and under the bonnet.  The instructions I received were, disconnect the battery when parking up so the dead battery doesn't kill the good battery.

 

Now I write this story out I realise how many things could have gone wrong! 

[New POD]

  On 23/11/2014 at 18:04, alf892 said:

Simple answer ......your supplier is a fool and has given you the wrong battery.

 

It's not like it would fit some and not others.

 

Go somewhere else.

 

 

After we got the Oxford built MINI cooper, the lights started flickering, and the next day the car was dead. Turned out the battery lead was not connected. 3 weeks later it happened again.

I investigated, and found that the battery seemed an inch too short, and was sitting on the lead, which then worked itself loose. It turned out (Via then internet) that the MINI ONE has a short battery and a plastic spacer, and the cooper has a longer battery.

I rang the dealer to explain the situation, and he said he'd get hold of the right battery, and if I went to erm "Budget Tyres and Battery" where he had an account, he'd get them to fit the right one for free.

 

I got there and they insisted that their supplier only listed one battery size for a 51 reg MINI, whether cooper or ONE. I took the NEW shorter battery, and made my own spacer out of plastic windows. (out of a machine guard, from work)  16 months on and it's fine. But Halfords, and every motor factors, only list the short battery.