I have heard rumor of a DIY/sticky to help swapping a dead battery on my 2007 G35 Sedan(V36). Maybe a little step by step and "be careful when you.." for removing the plastic cowling, rivets etc. I have searched, but cannot find the relevant thread. Help?
Jon

 

Advance, auto zone, most other places will do it for free.

 

Thank You yosip, but I live in small town and car is dead. I know it's do-able, I'm just so ham-fisted I tend to break fiddly plastic bits.

 

Lol, I see. I would make you a quick step-by-step but I drive a V35. Screw it, might work for you too.

I use a flathead to pry the body clips open on the battery cover, if you break those they are available on amazon for cheap or at the dealer for not so cheap. You don't need them to drive...

Once the cover is removed, you need to take off a few more clips to remove the hood cowl (passenger side only)

Now you have access to the battery.

Be careful not to rest tools on the battery because it is easy to short it to the grounded battery bracket.

Loosen the nuts on the battery terminals, gently tap them loose and the terminals will slide off. Use battery terminal grease after some baking soda if you see any serious oxidation on the terminals of the car.

Remove the battery bracket but only take the front nut all of the way off, just loosen the rear one. The stud in the rear is very short and easy to drop into neverland. After removing the front nut and loosening the rear you can swing that sucker out of the way then lift the battery out.

This is how I do it with my V35 it may vary slightly but most likely not too much with your V36.

The main thing would be to not break the hood cowl when removing it. It clips onto the bottom of the windshield so after you remove the body clips from it, you pull it down/forward and it will slide free from the windshield. In the middle where the two halves of the cowl meet there is an alignment pin molded into the plastic, lift up the passenger side cowl to get that alignment pin out of its designated hole before pulling down/forward.

Hope this helps, if anyone sees that this will not work for him please correct me.

-Mike

 

There's always this: https://g35driver.com/forums/v36-diy...r-battery.html



OR the FSM: http://www.nicoclub.com/FSM/G35/Seda...5_Sedan/pg.pdf

See page PG-98

 

Thank You very much yosip1115!! That is exactly what I was looking for, I now have a good mental picture and it does seem like they are pretty close - it is the clips I'm worried about...and not permanently damage something. And thank you as well vqsmile!!

Jon

 

Good to go! Just be careful with the cowl that is what you will break haha, it's not crazy fragile or anything just take your time with that step.

 

Thanks again, I'm going to get started when clips arrive.