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The customer was successfully upgraded from an H6 EFB to an H7-AGM. The restart was uneventful aside from the usual VW ADAS and steering angle relearn. That cleared up after a couple hard figure 8's around the parking lot. Battery config was updated using the orange dongle with no issues.

Couple hazards to watch out for:

-dont remove the cover on top of the positive battery fuse until you undo and secure the ground cable. Otherwise be extremely careful not to bump any of the studs on the combo fuse. Otherwise you'll blow a fuse inside the black strip next to the studs.

-Use gloves to insulate disconnected cables. Same as other vehicles with dual batteries. The ground plug should be undone first and safetied with a glove. Then undo the 13mm nut for the fat wire coming from the side along with the beauty clip on it. Flex away and safety with a glove. Then undo the 10mm nut holding the combo fuse to the other big positive cable on the battery post.

After reading the thread where a newer Hyundai engine got cooked when a housing drain plug fell inside the filter cartridge and wasn't caught, I figured I'd check out stocks for the same hazard. Luckily, the gasket and the little plug come in a plastic packet that won't fall inside.

It >probably< wasn't intended for this, but the filtering options on the left can be used to help dodge the witt damages from customers who only want buy the oil filter.

Sure would be nice to just grab them a blue box stp and be done with it, but that's not how the company wants to do business.

One of our guys started an install but ran into trouble and I did the recovery. The battery had to be lifted out with the connector attached so I could fight it on the ground with more room.

2019 Jeep Renegade.

Use a knife to modify adapter 4 as shown. That way, it will install without interfering with the wash nozzle on the wiper arm. 🛠️🛠️🛠️

I redacted the store info, but the battery was an econocraft that got swapped on warranty. It was severely discharged, but the date code is 4/26 so I decided to see if I could bring it back from the dead. This is the result.

I see this pretty consistently where discharged batteries get rejected just to test good when recharged by a charger that charges instead of thinking too much.

Stay safe out there folks!

Thankfully it was still morning and the battery comes out as soon as you remove the strut brace and a couple cable connectors to clear the way up.

I got to work on this wet bundle of joy today after a year old alternator failure got blamed on an oil leak. The amount of near tar like sludge inside the covers was ridiculous. I only saw the timing marks on the bottom cover after having to scrub it with a brush due to all the build up on it.

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This also explains the intermittent crank no start with a P0335. Just look at that crank sprocket that doubles as a crank tone wheel.

Definitely one of the easiest German car batteries to do

EDIT: See below for an update

DCA to SFO trip got sold with the second leg being on standby. Aside from a 1hr or so weather delay on the first leg, a bunch of us basically got dumped at the terminal til the next flight at 10am. Apparently neither the airline nor the Chicago PD office on site have any blankets to spare. I've slept on worse surfaces than this before, but this just SUCKS.

If I knew this could even happen. I would've packed my thin summer blanket with me.

It appears Spirit Air now has a spiritual successor.

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UPDATE 5/22/26:

To clarify a few things that got brought up. I travelled in shorts and sandals since my home city was well in the 80s and DC was in the low 90s. Although in retrospect I should have packed something warmer that would have fit in my bag that went under the seat. Plus SOCKS. Live n learn.

A few folks mentioned why I got the standby ticket. My original DCA flight was scheduled at 6am with landing in SFO around noon. I got done earlier than I thought and I checked to see if there are any earlier flights I could get onto for a price, of course. I looked in the SWA app and saw a flight for 7pm with a landing in SFO around midnight. $300 something more, but it is what it is. I'll take it.

Here's the thing. Nowhere in the app did it say the second leg was going to be standby. I only discovered it when I went to the kiosk to print the passes because they wouldn't show up in the app. It printed a pass with a seat number for the first leg, but all dashes on the second pass and a note to show it to a gate agent. Bottom left corner had "stand by" in super small print. Not much I could do except cross my fingers at that point.

But I gotta give credit where credit is due. When I woke up around 3 or 4 in MDW, I saw a note that the rescheduled 9am flight got delayed even more. Along with a note that said I can rebook free of charge, and I saw a flight taking off at 5am with a connect in LAS. Took that and was in my car around 10am in SFO.

Also, it appears the $330 extra charge for the rebooking in DCA got pulled back proactively. So not having to plead my case to some 1-800 number is a damn huge plus from my point of view.