How to Replace Battery 2000-05 Volkswagen Jetta or Golf
Created on: 2014-03-28
Learn how to replace the battery in your 00-05 Volkswagen Jetta or Golf. 1A Auto shows you how to do it yourself in this video.
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step 1 :Removing the Battery
- Pull off the battery cover
- Remove the 10mm nut from the fuse box wire
- Slide the fuse box back and up and off
- Unclip the battery panel
- Loosen the 10mm nut on each battery cable
- Pull off the negative battery cable
- Pull off the positive battery cable
- Remove the two Phillips screws from the headlight panel
- Pull the headlight panel up and out
- Remove the 13mm bolt from the battery hold-down
- Pull the pull-down up and out
- Pull the sleeve off the battery
- Pull the battery forward and out
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step 2 :Installing the Battery
- Lower the battery into place
- Slide on the battery sleeve
- Put the battery hold-down into place
- Insert the 13mm bolt into the hold down
- Put the headlight panel into place
- Insert the two Phillips screws into the headlight panel
- Put on the positive battery cable
- Tighten the 10mm nut for the positive battery cable
- Put on the negative battery cable
- Tighten the 10mm nut for the negative battery cable
- Clip on the battery panel
- Put the fuse box into place
- Put on the fuse box wire
- Fasten the 10mm nut onto the fuse box wire
- Put the headlight panel into place
- Insert the two Phillips screws into the headlight panel
- Slide on the battery cover
Tools needed
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13mm Socket
Socket Extensions
Phillips Head Screwdriver
10mm Socket
Ratchet
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Hi, I'm Don from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks.
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace a battery on this 2004 Volkswagen Jetta. The items you'll need is a 10mm and 13mm socket and ratchet with an extension, and a Phillips screwdriver.
Start off by removing this 10mm nut that holds this wire into place. Now pull the wire free. Then you want to slide the fuse box right here back and then up and off. Then push the tabs on either side of this panel and then just lift it up and pull it out. Loosen these two 10mm nuts holding your battery cables into place and then pull those battery cables free, starting with your negative battery cable. Now just remove these two Phillips screws right here and slide this panel up and out.
Next, remove this 13mm bolt down here in the battery hold-down. Once the bolt's removed, just remove that hold down up and out, and then slide this sleeve up and off of your battery. Now you can pull the battery forward and out.
Take your new battery and lower it down into place. Then slide that insulation sleeve back down over the battery. Then replace that battery hold-down. We'll just fast forward as Don tightens up that bolt. Now push your battery cables back into place, positive first and then tighten it up, and then your negative cable and tighten that up. Then push that bracket back into place and then push the front of it into those clips. Just slide that fuse box forward into place. Put that wire back into place and tighten up that 10mm nut. Slide this panel back down and then replace those two Phillips screws. Then replace your battery cover and you're all set.
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