Step-by-Step Car Battery Replacement Guide

First, we'll open the driver side door. Right where you see the steering, underneath the steering is a hood latch that needs to be pulled out. Once the latch is pulled, you would notice the hood loss its grip. On top of the logo, there is a lever right there that we need to press and hold and then lift the hood upwards. This is that lever that I was talking about. Press and hold this lever towards the left side and then lift up the hood. Now, we gently take the support bar and then place it in that hole right there. Once the hood is opened, right there is the engine and this is the location for the battery. First, we will take out this nut right there. And I'll be using a 10 mm ratchet like that to take it out. Notice here, we are not taking out the nut completely. Just losing it to a point until that frame on top is pulled out. Once it is loose enough, you notice down there, if I zoom in, there's actually a metal rod going down. Since we have made the nut loose enough, what we will do is we will press this down and then pull it outwards. Just like that. Once it's pulled out. Now from the above we will just turn it towards the side because this frame was actually holding on to the battery. After this we will jump on taking out the terminals. First terminal we'll be taking out is actually going to be the negative terminal right there. Again using the same tool we will lose the nut on top. Notice we're not taking out the nut completely. Just making it loose enough to a point until we are able to pull out the terminal. With a little wiggle. Notice the terminal is pulled out completely. We'll keep the negative terminal aside. Now we will jump on taking out the positive terminal. Again, it's the same process. We take out that plastic cover first and then we lose the nut on the top. Once we notice the nut is loose enough. Here I'm trying to wiggle the terminal, checking to see if it's okay to be pulled out. And it seems like we need to loose the nut a little bit more. There it is. It's loose enough. And we are able to pull out the terminal with both the terminals out. Now we are good to pull out the battery. We'll try to grab the battery from here because it has handle on top. And then we'll try to make out some room by setting aside all the terminals as much as we can so that we have enough room to pull out the battery. There is the battery pulled out. Now some new batteries do not have the handle on top. Unfortunately, in this case, the other battery that I have, it also does not have a handle. So we'll just have to slide it in like that. Just be careful in this process so that you do not drop the battery while installing it in that spot. Once in, just make sure the battery is sitting there properly. Now it seems like it is sitting properly. Also, do remember to put back the cover that I took out from the old battery. Now the first thing we'll do once the battery is in, we will punch in the positive terminal first. While punching in, just make sure the terminal is all the way down. Seems like this is the very bottom of it. And once this is all the way down only then we will go ahead and tight that nut. I noticed for the positive terminal the spacing for the nut is a little tight. So you may have to work your way out. Also do make sure it is tight all the way till the very end. I personally always tight this nut to a point where the terminal is not shaking. And that is the end of me tightening that nut. Notice the terminal seems completely in and it's not shaking. This one seems good. Now we will go ahead and install the negative terminal. Again we make sure the terminal is completely in. Once it is completely in only then we will go ahead and tight that nut. Nut is tight and the terminal also seems firm and strong. The final part would be just to install that frame right there. Every battery has a different size. So sometimes you may have to loose this nut a little bit more in order to fit the frame on top. And in this case, we have to see if that bottom rod is able to go in that spot underneath. Here we are checking to see if we are able to punch in the bottom portion of the rod underneath. Seems like it is need to go a little bit more down. And that's the reason why we need to lose this nut a little bit more. We lose the nut from the top so that more room is created. This much seems fine. Now we'll try to punch it back. And notice this time we were able to punch it in. Now we are good to tighten the nut on top. We are actually tightening this nut so that the frame on top is holding onto the battery firm and strong. Again, there is no right or wrong limit to tightening this nut. We will just tight this to a point where the top frame is holding onto the battery without shaking it. Here I'm going to check one final time the frame looks firm as well as the battery is also firm which is exactly what we are looking for. With that we are done with the replacement process of this battery. Now, suppose you want to close the hood back. Just lift the hood upwards and then take out the support bar. We put it back to its place. We'll need to bring down the hood up until the middle. And to close the hood properly, we will need to leave the hood from the middle with a slight push. If it still does not close the way we did, then you may have to push it from the top until it closes completely. If this video helps you in any way, please consider liking this video and subscribing to our channel. Here are the list of tools used for this takeout.