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by dario » Tue Nov 28, 2017 9:40 pm
I decided that after seeing the battery discharge warning for well over 3 months that it was time to get the battery changed. Admittedly i did not know that i had to have the battery coded to the car.
after a trip to the stealers and being quoted about £170 plus coding (about £30 i think) i thought bugger that and searched the internet. best i could find for a Bosch or Yuasa 5 year battery was about £95.00 but i would still have the coding issue and the extra cost.
quick call to my local battery dealer in Bedford and got a cost of £92.00 inc VAT fitting and coding for the Yuasa 5 year 80Ahr /800CCA.
when installing the battery they installed a jump battery in the footwell and connected a supply to the OBDII port. They said this was to maintain the memory in the ECU's around the car.
battery was installed and hey presto........ no dash lights!!! it would start and do all sorts of normal things, but no oil,charge,seatbelt, airbag lights NOTHING.
they then recalled that this had happened a few time before on 3 series (I suppose it was an E9X series) and a fuse to the dash gets blown.
they traced the fuse (showed me the easy way to get the fuse box down) and all done.
£92.00 bargain.