help needed removing my van battery

Post by **komet** » 26 Mar 2006, 22:20

I have a camper with swivel seats, the swivel base is preventing me from removing the battery

Does anyone have any ideas or will i have to remove seat, if so how do i remove swivel base

help is greatly appreciated

Post by **Cruz** » 26 Mar 2006, 23:00

Have you tried swivelling the seat as it may make it easier??

Post by **komet** » 26 Mar 2006, 23:08

tried that shaun but still no good, think i will need to remove the base
any ideas on the best way to do it ?

Post by **lhd** » 26 Mar 2006, 23:24

On the side of your seat there will be a latch. Lift this up and it will enable your seat to slide completely out of the runners, then 4 X 10mm nuts.
thats how mine is anyway......
lhd................................

Post by **ermie571** » 27 Mar 2006, 12:09

actually - swivelling DOES do it - if you look at the base, although it is square, the rotating bit isn't central. Hence when you swivell it , it clears the battery!!

Ours did, anyway, even though it did not look like it would work. We did take the seat of the runners on the swivell plate first.

Hope this helps.

Emma

Post by **Hacksawbob** » 27 Mar 2006, 14:15

mine used to clear but now its stuck! there are acouple of end stops on the VW runners that stop the seat sliding off altogether when you slide it back, bend/remove these and the whole seat will slide off. BTW this makes for a cheap swivell seat as you can slide it back on backwards (thanks to thenginuity of dazzer for that one)

Post by **Cruz** » 28 Mar 2006, 16:16

ermie571 wrote:actually - swivelling DOES do it - if you look at the base, although it is square, the rotating bit isn't central. Hence when you swivell it , it clears the battery!!

Ours did, anyway, even though it did not look like it would work. We did take the seat of the runners on the swivell plate first.

Hope this helps.

Emma

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