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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: mani12354 on 19 May 2011, 18:47
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Right people this is one this which is pissing me off
my terminal for my battery keeps poping off for some bizarre reason n keeps restarting everthing i have clamped it down n stil ldoing it ??
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Right people this is one this which is pissing me off
my terminal for my battery keeps poping off for some bizarre reason n keeps restarting everthing i have clamped it down n stil ldoing it ??
make sure it's at the bottom. I normally have to tap them down with a hammer.
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Show me a picture :wink:
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You got the other problems sorted..?
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Bigger hammer required.
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nope other problem not sorted it comes n goes like a sensor playing up :shocked:
wen i bang the battery terminal it all connects fine
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If it is the clamp that's popping off shim it or file the slot/opening out a bit so when it clamps it is tighter (you could replace the clamp but shimming it is by far the simplest, cheapest and easiest thing to do), if its the actual terminal of the battery that is at fault I think your only option is to replace the battery.
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You could try as a 1st to replace the clamp.
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If it is the clamp that's popping off shim it or file the slot/opening out a bit so when it clamps it is tighter (you could replace the clamp but shimming it is by far the simplest, cheapest and easiest thing to do), if its the actual terminal of the battery that is at fault I think your only option is to replace the battery.
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30 sec fix tops, slacken the clamp, find a bit of anything-to-hand to take up any slack on the terminal where the clamp wont meet and you're sorted, there'll still be plenty of contact. I had an Isuzu Trooper that spent most of its life with a bit of [insert whatever you like] jammed in the clamp and tightened.
If however the clamp is tight, it's possible the terminal itself is loose in the battery in which case, as above, new battery.