RE: Optima battery in an S6?

[knotnook@traverse.com]

But, Steven, what about the "breather" tube?

Kneale Brownson


At 11:19 AM 4/1/99 -0800, Buchholz, Steven wrote:
>I'm not familiar with your car, but I assume that it has the battery under
>the rear seat.  
>
>I did successfully install an Optima battery under the rear seat of my ur-q
>... what I did was to measure the existing battery in the car and compare
>that to the measurements of the Optima (I don't know if things have changed
>recently, but when I did this there were only 2 flavors of the battery).  I
>found that in height they were almost identical and the other dimensions
>were fairly compatible and so I decided to buy the battery.  When I put it
>in I found that the locations of the (+) and (-) terminals were swapped ...
>which almost made it a no go, but fortunately the positive lead took a
>circuitous route under the back seat and by repositioning the ground cables
>connection to the body of the car I could make it fit.  If you are worried
>about shorts (you could check the underside of the rear seat to see if there
>is any metal wires either exposed or under a small bit of foam in the
>vicinity of the positive terminal) it shouldn't be too difficult to fashion
>a cover to shield it.  
>
>HTH!
>Steve Buchholz
>San Jose, CA (USA)
>
>	----------
>	From:  Jeff Maurer [SMTP:jeff.maurer@infocus.com]
>	Sent:  Thursday, April 01, 1999 10:30 AM
>	To:  Quattro Email List (E-mail)
>	Subject:  Optima battery in an S6?
>
>	I searched the archives and didn't find anything that was confidence
>	inspiring.  Has anyone dropped an Optima battery into an S6?  I've
>got a
>	95.5 Avant.  I saw one reference to putting one in on it's side, and
>another
>	warning about the terminals shorting out (due to seat springs) on
>	non-standard size batteries.
>
>	Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
>
>	Jeff