New battery

[Amarillo]

After 7 1/2 years and 95,000 miles our engine battery has come to the end of its life and needs replacing.

VW are quoting £331 to supply and fit.
Kwik Fit are quoting £290
The local parts’ shop is quoting £245 - Varta 80Ah 580 901 080

Tanya batteries is £170 including delivery.

How easy is it to change a battery and retain, eg, radio coding?

Or should an incompetent like me pay the extra to get it fitted by someone who knows what they are doing?

 

[Webbah_in_Switzerland]

After 7 1/2 years and 95,000 miles our engine battery has come to the end of its life and needs replacing.

VW are quoting £331 to supply and fit.
Kwik Fit are quoting £290
The local parts’ shop is quoting £245 - Varta 80Ah 580 901 080

Tanya batteries is £170 including delivery.

How easy is it to change a battery and retain, eg, radio coding?

Or should an incompetent like me pay the extra to get it fitted by someone who knows what they are doing?

Do you have an OBD Eleven? This makes it very very easy to do. Typically if swapping for the same size you don’t need to do anything, but it’s good practice to change the serial number via a VCDS or OBD Eleven (Carista might work too but don’t have one) as this tells the smart BMS that there’s a new battery. Just change to any number like 12345678 (8 digits).


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[Amarillo]

Do you have an OBD Eleven? This makes it very very easy to do. Typically if swapping for the same size you don’t need to do anything, but it’s good practice to change the serial number via a VCDS or OBD Eleven (Carista might work too but don’t have one) as this tells the smart BMS that there’s a new battery. Just change to any number like 12345678 (8 digits).


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Nope - I have none of those.

 

[Webbah_in_Switzerland]

Nope - I have none of those.

If it were me, I’d buy an OBD Eleven as they are fairly cheap and do it myself. Still cheaper than any shop to do. And then you have the device to do other one click app adaptations. It’s a fantastic piece of kit.

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[Webbah_in_Switzerland]

If it were me, I’d buy an OBD Eleven as they are fairly cheap and do it myself. Still cheaper than any shop to do. And then you have the device to do other one click app adaptations. It’s a fantastic piece of kit.

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Coding new battery | OBDeleven

Did you buy the same type of battery?

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[Webbah_in_Switzerland]

Coding new battery | OBDeleven

Did you buy the same type of battery?

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One little thing though, I had problems doing this on an iPhone (all other adaptations worked fine) and used an old Android phone I had which worked fine. Might be a bug with the iOS version. Likely fixed by now but just so you’re aware.


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[WelshGas]

After 7 1/2 years and 95,000 miles our engine battery has come to the end of its life and needs replacing.

VW are quoting £331 to supply and fit.
Kwik Fit are quoting £290
The local parts’ shop is quoting £245 - Varta 80Ah 580 901 080

Tanya batteries is £170 including delivery.

How easy is it to change a battery and retain, eg, radio coding?

Or should an incompetent like me pay the extra to get it fitted by someone who knows what they are doing?

Tanya and swap yourself. You might get a few warning lights on dash for a couple of miles while the vehicle computer resets itself.
You don't Have To do any software changes regarding a new battery of the same type and amps it just takes a little longer for the smart charging system to get in sync. Changing the serial number using OBD Eleven or Carista just speeds up that process.

 

[Amarillo]

Tanya and swap yourself. You might get a few warning lights on dash for a couple of miles while the vehicle computer resets itself.
You don't Have To do any software changes regarding a new battery of the same type and amps it just takes a little longer for the smart charging system to get in sync. Changing the serial number using OBD Eleven or Carista just speeds up that process.

Thanks WG, useful as ever.

Battery ordered. I’ll probably change the battery on Tuesday.

The old battery I’ll combine with new a 100w solar panel I’ll install on the roof of our garden summerhouse, and a solar charger I have lying around to give light in the summer house and over our chicken house and chicken run.

 

[WelshGas]

Thanks WG, useful as ever.

Battery ordered. I’ll probably change the battery on Tuesday.

The old battery I’ll combine with new a 100w solar panel I’ll install on the roof of our garden summerhouse, and a solar charger I have lying around to give light in the summer house and over our chicken house and chicken run.

Good idea.
Worthwhile getting a Carista, Black Friday deals, aa you can tweak various settings or read Diagnostic Codes so you can approach the Dealership with some fore knowledge. Works on many makes and cars.

 

[Vagophile]

This year I bought a replacement battery from Tayna (often mis-identified as Tanya). Ordered on a Friday afternoon, on my doorstep at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday morning. I fitted the new battery and that was it. No coding or anything else. My Cali is bluemotion stop start and I ordered the battery that Tayna identified as being the most appropriate (it was a Varta one). It has run perfectly well since, maybe there will be a long term effect, but absolutely no short term problems. The most difficult part was removing the old battery because they're blooming heavy and awkward to lift; make sure that all of the surrounding sheilding is removed as it's quite a tight fit.
Edit:Original battery replaced was 11 years old.

 

[Amarillo]

This year I bought a replacement battery from Tayna (often mis-identified as Tanya). Ordered on a Friday afternoon, on my doorstep at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday morning. I fitted the new battery and that was it. No coding or anything else. My Cali is bluemotion stop start and I ordered the battery that Tayna identified as being the most appropriate (it was a Varta one). It has run perfectly well since, maybe there will be a long term effect, but absolutely no short term problems. The most difficult part was removing the old battery because they're blooming heavy and awkward to lift; make sure that all of the surrounding sheilding is removed as it's quite a tight fit.

Yodel call Tayna “Tanya”. I blame my spillcheek.

 

[Vagophile]

Yodel call Tayna “Tanya”. I blame my spillcheek.

But you didn't order your battery from Tanya, (did you?)

 

[Amarillo]

But you didn't order your battery from Tanya, (did you?)

The call centre girl might have been called Tanya, I don’t recall her giving me her name.

But while Yodel’s misspelling “Tanya” for Tayna is probably a mistake, my misspelling I blame on my spellcheck auto mis-correcting.

 

[Amarillo]

Replacement battery fitted. Absolutely no issues when switching over - 15 minute job. But I’m absolutely gutted.

On holiday in Northumberland at the end of August I was delighted to catch the odometer click onto 94,444. I reset the trip computer to zero, knowing that in 4,321.0 miles the two counters would read 98,765 4,321.0. But in changing the battery the trip computer has reset to zero.

I’m going to have a good cry now!

 

[Mansfieldman750]

Replacement battery fitted. Absolutely no issues when switching over - 15 minute job. But I’m absolutely gutted.

On holiday in Northumberland at the end of August I was delighted to catch the odometer click onto 94,444. I reset the trip computer to zero, knowing that in 4,321.0 miles the two counters would read 98,765 4,321.0. But in changing the battery the trip computer has reset to zero.

I’m going to have a good cry now!

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Never mind, you can still have 98765 432.1. You’ll get over it.