How to take off battery cover - LotusTalk

-LAW- · 02-19-2012, 10:07 AM

I tried removing it in different angle.... it wont come off !!!

Help!

-Law

RoadDad · 02-19-2012, 10:34 AM

There are two places that mine tended to hang up - at the flexible retaining bar on the rear that needs to be pulled to the rear to clear the battery and at the front left top corner. There is a small lip at that corner that catches on the battery. (those front, rear, left are in relation to the car). I found that clearing the rear bar thing then lifting the cover as far as possible before pulling it off really helped a lot. It is very easy to crack some portion of that cover in getting it off.

LotusSG2057 · 02-20-2012, 06:05 AM

Is this for your Elise or Exige? If Elise I have done it a few times. Also, there is a "how to do" in your manual. Anyway, from experience take off rug and there are going to be two buttons on right side to unbutton and you are all set.

-LAW- · 02-20-2012, 06:57 PM

It's for an Elise... I will try those out when I get home

Thanks Guys for the newb question lol

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LotusSG2057 Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Posts: 296	Is this for your Elise or Exige? If Elise I have done it a few times. Also, there is a "how to do" in your manual. Anyway, from experience take off rug and there are going to be two buttons on right side to unbutton and you are all set. __________________ 05' Lotus Elise Storm Titanium HawkEye Subaru Impreza Regal Pearl Blue "I am going to finish what I have started" "I don't want revenge, I want justice." "You kill innocent people. Sometimes murder is justice."

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02-19-2012, 10:34 AM	#2 (permalink)
RoadDad daDdaoR Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 9,101	There are two places that mine tended to hang up - at the flexible retaining bar on the rear that needs to be pulled to the rear to clear the battery and at the front left top corner. There is a small lip at that corner that catches on the battery. (those front, rear, left are in relation to the car). I found that clearing the rear bar thing then lifting the cover as far as possible before pulling it off really helped a lot. It is very easy to crack some portion of that cover in getting it off.

02-20-2012, 06:57 PM	#4 (permalink)
-LAW- Registered User Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: South Florida Posts: 196	It's for an Elise... I will try those out when I get home Thanks Guys for the newb question lol

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