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Have you replaced your battery cable assembly? How difficult was it? We've had 3 edges and loved them. Our 2010 which we got back from one of our kids has a repair to the battery assembly and the assembly has always had a short of some kind... significant wiggling 'fixes' it but, I bought a new assembly (not cheap) and am going to install it. Have any of you got tips or look out fors for doing this project? I'm installing new shocks/struts and doing the brakes and replacing a 5 year old battery too. 

 

Thanks for any response!

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sooooo, nobody has done this... dang.. well, I'll do it this weekend and take pics.... 

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Wow. Sounds like they had to pull a lot out of the way to get to the ground terminals. Give it to Rainman Ray and he'll have it done in ten minutes. lol

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On 1/31/2022 at 1:16 PM, rand said:

sooooo, nobody has done this... dang.. well, I'll do it this weekend and take pics.... 

I had just finished replacing the alternator, big pain in the butt by the way, and discovered a bad battery terminal. I was in no mood to start removing the obstacles required to replace whole cables so I used a Dorman 926-882 battery terminal and modified it a bit by removing one terminal. I then flattened and trimmed the OEM cable ends. This was around 15K miles ago and I haven’t had any problems. I hope this helps. I attempted to load images however the one failed and I’m not allowed to load another. I’ll try again after this posts. 

 

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thank you so much! I'm afraid my cable is just faulty.. I have repaired it 3 times over the past 8 years, but I think it is just 'el rotto' 

 

I did the shocks and struts this weekend and am definitely thinking I'll take it to my favorite garage to have them do it. In scouting it, it looks like a giant PITA. 

 

when there is no youtube, you know it can't be fun!

 

Thanks again

 

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