Battery, Preparing For Charging
Battery, Preparing for Charging
Procedure
Risk of explosion on discharged battery with visual indicator.
• If the visual indicator has no color or is light yellow, the battery may not be tested or charged. Jump starting must not be used! There is a risk of explosion during testing, charging or jump starting. The battery must be replaced.
Before the battery charger can be connected, the following preparations are necessary:
• It is recommended that the battery be charged with terminal clamps disconnected.
- Switch off ignition, switch off all electrical consumers and remove ignition key.
Vehicles without a positive terminal grip in engine compartment
- Remove luggage compartment floor cover.
- Release clips - arrows - and remove cover from negative terminal.
• If the battery negative terminal cover is under the rear lid trim, trim must be removed.
- Loosen nut - 2 - a few turns and remove ground wire terminal clamp from battery terminal.
- Loosen nut - 1 - a few turns and remove positive wire terminal clamp from battery terminal.
- Clamp red battery charger charging clamp "+" to positive terminal and black charging clamp "-" to battery negative terminal.
Vehicles with a positive terminal grip in engine compartment
- Open the cover - 1 - over the positive terminal clamp - arrow -.
- Connect the red clamp "+" - 1 - to the positive terminal - 2 - and the black clamp "-" - item 4 - to negative terminal - 5 -.
All Vehicles
- Connect battery charger electrical system connector and switch charger on.
- Keep lid open while charging.