How to replace battery lead?

Johnny2R · 8th December 2018, 17:45

I've been having a problem with the battery connections on my 2002 CDT Tourer. Corrosion kept on building up on the positive terminal, and I was finding it increasingly difficult to tighten the connection such that it didn't move about. I bought a couple of little shims to go over the battery posts but in the process of trying to connect the positive, something has sheared off in the connection assembly and it can no longer be tightened. Looking at it, it's clear that it's quite badly eroded.

So, I need a new battery cable, or cables. Are these easy enough to fit, such that a non-technical numpty could do it, or it something that I'd need to leave to a garage? I see that two cables come from the connector, one going straightforwardly to a fuse box, but the other going to somewhere which looks rather inaccessible (where?) at the front of the engine.

I can probably get hold of the requisite cable from a breakers, but I'm wondering if there is some cheap replacement I can buy new which works (I don't want one where the looseness problem has already started occurring if I can avoid it).

8th December 2018, 17:45	#1
Johnny2R Gets stuck in Rover 75 CDT Club Tourer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Norwich Posts: 712 Thanks: 98 Thanked 47 Times in 24 Posts	How to replace battery lead? I've been having a problem with the battery connections on my 2002 CDT Tourer. Corrosion kept on building up on the positive terminal, and I was finding it increasingly difficult to tighten the connection such that it didn't move about. I bought a couple of little shims to go over the battery posts but in the process of trying to connect the positive, something has sheared off in the connection assembly and it can no longer be tightened. Looking at it, it's clear that it's quite badly eroded. So, I need a new battery cable, or cables. Are these easy enough to fit, such that a non-technical numpty could do it, or it something that I'd need to leave to a garage? I see that two cables come from the connector, one going straightforwardly to a fuse box, but the other going to somewhere which looks rather inaccessible (where?) at the front of the engine. I can probably get hold of the requisite cable from a breakers, but I'm wondering if there is some cheap replacement I can buy new which works (I don't want one where the looseness problem has already started occurring if I can avoid it).