[ouroboros]

Battery under passenger seat!

This car continues to amaze me. I popped the hood for the first time and was very impressed by the tidy layout and engine cover, however I needed to find the battery to jumpstart my Boxster. A bit of headscratching and web surfing later and I'm looking at the battery wedged under the passenger seat. ..... Good I guess for weight distribution but very hard to get jump leads in there! gave up and got a car with a battery in a sensible place to do the job

 

[ouroboros]

Many thanks Roadrutz - that will come in handy for jumping any cars in future. In the end I actually got some security guards to help me push it!

Hi Mike - it's not a joke I didn't pop the hood since I've had the car (2 months and came fully serviced)!!! I've been a Porsche owner for the last 8 years and getting a look at the engine is quite hard in the 986/996. I guess I'm now used to not tinkering in there.

If your second car has been sitting around for a while (so it has a weak battery) and it's stranded in a carpark and your manual is at home, and you look under the hood of this thing for the first time, mobile surfing is a godsend!!!

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[ouroboros]

Can we take the neg comments out of this thread and add it to the DIY? The info on jump points may be useful for others

 

[ouroboros]

Hi, It's not complicated. When I posted I hadn't read the manual and was just surprised t was in that location (well actually the manual was at home and I needed to jumpstart another car) so I felt like an idiot when I couldn't find it. I also didn't know about the jumpstart rails...

Just follow the procedure to raise the seat.

I've had alot of success with Bosch batteries for my other cars as a swap to OE at a good price as I'm sure the Merc option will be insane. Check they offer a proper OE equivalent.