"marvthegrate" (marvthegrate)
10/28/2013 at 09:50 • Filed to: None
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"marvthegrate" (marvthegrate)
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Fucking Chrysler makes changing a battery a huge PITA.
chuck07
> marvthegrate
10/28/2013 at 09:58 |
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Same in my mom's 3oom. Gotta make room for the vertically mounted FWD somehow.
Party-vi
> marvthegrate
10/28/2013 at 10:01 |
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Times like this I'm glad my battery is in the trunk.
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marvthegrate
> Party-vi
10/28/2013 at 10:06 |
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Yeah, I wish it was in the trunk. Removing a wheel for what should be an easy swap boggles the mind.
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marvthegrate
> chuck07
10/28/2013 at 10:06 |
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Yeah, this also is my mother's car. Believe me, I hate the shitbox. She likes driving a whale for some reason.
McMike
> marvthegrate
10/28/2013 at 10:09 |
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Ah yes, Chrysler wheel-well batteries ..
So many shops had "free battery installation" until you came along.
I wished I could have been a fly on the wall the first time one of those rolled in to NAPA/Track Auto, etc.. The arguments must have been epic.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> marvthegrate
10/28/2013 at 10:10 |
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Older Sebrings had it in that exact same place on the other side. Why on the driver's side and not like an Intrepid or yours on the passenger side, I don't know.
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Party-vi
> marvthegrate
10/28/2013 at 10:11 |
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I don't think Chrysler expected anyone to keep a 300 long enough to need a new battery :3
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marvthegrate
> McMike
10/28/2013 at 10:18 |
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A buddy of mine (the asshole who took this unauthorized picture of me) happens to be a tech at a mopar stealership. He just laughed at me when I called him asking about the best way to get to the battery. A couple of searches later and I found out how to do it. Only bled once along the way.
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marvthegrate
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
10/28/2013 at 10:19 |
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Because Marquise de Sade must have been reincarnated as a chrysler engineer.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> marvthegrate
10/28/2013 at 10:22 |
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I can imagine someone on autopilot used to one position going so far as wheel off before realizing "nope, wrong side". Funny thing is, I remember Intrepid ads from back in the day touting how "teh awsoem" the battery location was because balance or something.
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Tech_vance53
> marvthegrate
10/28/2013 at 10:50 |
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I wish my avenger was that easy. I have to remove the entire front bumper, plus a headlight and horn assembly. It's asinine.
Volvosaurus-Rex
> marvthegrate
10/28/2013 at 11:09 |
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My roommate has one of the 300s from that era. When he mentioned how difficult it was to change his battery a while back I wanted to walk into Chrysler and punch an engineer...I'll leave a note that says "From one engineer to another, with love"
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George McNally
> marvthegrate
10/28/2013 at 11:16 |
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My retired father-in-law was an electrical engineer...he has one of these. He called me last winter because he needed a jump, his mind was blown when I told him where his battery was.
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marvthegrate
> George McNally
10/28/2013 at 11:26 |
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As was mine when I found out. Bad engineering is bad.
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marvthegrate
> Volvosaurus-Rex
10/28/2013 at 11:27 |
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I'd throw in $10 toward bail if you did.
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Volvosaurus-Rex
> marvthegrate
10/28/2013 at 11:38 |
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No need for bail, the judge also owned a Chrysler from that time frame, as did the bailiff and everyone else in the court. I get a parade through the courtroom and they sentence the engineer to standing out on a street corner with one of those "shaming" signs about how he designed the placement of the battery in 90s-00s Chryslers.
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marvthegrate
> Tech_vance53
10/28/2013 at 11:58 |
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So you're saying they haven't noticeably improved over the years?
LuczOr
> marvthegrate
10/28/2013 at 12:52 |
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I had to do the same shit when changing the battery on my sister's old Dodge Intrepid.
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Tech_vance53
> marvthegrate
10/28/2013 at 13:22 |
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Hell to the no. My car is the bastard child of the Sebring of that same generation, before Chrysler became Italian and started updating everything. We got a pretty new front, rear, interior, and big ol' engine from the 2011 reboot. But they skipped over us in the overhaul department.
gmctavish needs more space
> marvthegrate
10/28/2013 at 13:31 |
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Pretty sure that's a Fiat dude