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.