New Battery (and securing clamp bolt)

[rob hod]

    Fitted a new battery yesterday, main dealer item as always, and after
discount only a little more expensive than other sources.

    Interesting thing was that this seems to have resulted in the drivers
door central locking springing back into life again. After a previous foray
into the door wiring to fix the inevitable fatigue breaks, the drivers door
lost its ability to unlock all the other doors. this didn't worry me much
because more often than not there are no passengers, perhaps audi think
their customer are really popular people and always hang around in gangs of
four, anyway the passenger door was still able to lock or unlock all others
so I left it like that. Having fitted the new battery the drivers door
starts operating them all again. Is it possible that some electronics have
been 'reset' by the power outage?

    The 5 min.  battery replacement itself turned into a  PITA when the new
battery somehow meant that the old securing clamp bolt was no longer
interested in reaching its hole. I came up with a great replacement which is
a Vauxhall exhaust downpipe setscrew. The great bit being that it is a
couple of mm longer and has a shouldered head, meaning you can position and
start it with a socket instead of it disappearing up inside the socket. I
don't know if you can get it in the states, but it is a GM part so you may
be able to , Number I have for it is - 11086982 "Screw hex HD M8x21". When I
bought them (10 yrs ago!) they were 0.21 GBP each.


    Cheers



rob