I’m looking for technical help or recommendations on: Replacement battery.
I’m looking to replace the battery and was wondering if the one in it is actually the original (see attached)?
I picked this car up in 2023 and only had 1 owner prior (37k miles at the time). Been having blind spot monitoring issues and saw a few threads in which a battery replacement solved the issues (hoping the same). I’m doing the bushes at the weekend so figured I’d fire in a new battery, any recommendations/gotos?
The Yuasa YBX5053 gets a lot of recommendations, 5 year guarantee and nominally 50Ah, but they seem to be hard to find at the moment.
The Varta Blue has been my go-to on several cars and unsurprisingly there have been no problems. I only felt it wise to replace the old one because it had been allowed to go completely flat a couple of times. In fact it holds charge perfectly and I’ve used it a couple of time to rescue friends and family.
I don’t think that my 2016 ND has blind spot monitoring, unless it’s linked to the lane departure system which I have permanently switched off. A search suggests to me it was part of a Safety Pack.
Yeah I think I read this a while back. I’m hoping it’s not the modules tbh and if it’s I’ll probably not bother fixing as I imagine it’s gonna be a pretty penny.
Defo has BSM as it worked intermittently for a while and now it’s completed dead. Everything else works associated with the LDS etc. Maybe it came with the Sport NAV model as standard?
I have a Sport Recaro. I might check whether my car should have it. It has the rear parking sensors which is what the car uses to detect vehicles entering the blind spot I think. I turned off my lane departure warning soon after I got the car - I found it much more annoying than helpful. With the hood up, the car feels like it has more of a blind spot than it does. Watch a vehicle transition from your rear view to wing mirror and you’ll see what I mean.
With most cars it’s possible to eliminate the blind spot by setting the door mirrors so that you can just not see the side of your own car. You’ll still pick up cars behind before they’ve disappeared from the inside mirror, and by the time they have gone from the door mirror they will be coming into your peripheral vision. If you do need to see the side of the car as when parking, you only need to move your head a bit. It works for me in the ND.
Easy to check when you’re on a multi-lane road that cars do not ‘disappear’ between the two views, and tweak it a bit.
I thought I would be able to find a youtube video of how to do this. The first half dozen I found all suggested having a view of your own car - unnecessary, as you already know it’s there.
FInally I found one that shows a way of doing it.
I’ve been doing this for years and I think it’s probably saved me a few ‘moments’
