Disconnect negative terminal?

Jedy617 · Jul 26, 2012

Hey guys, I am installing an air intake and the instructions say to disconnect the negative battery terminal... but how do you do it? I assume you have to go through the trunk?

mowse · Jul 26, 2012

I've had 3 different intakes on my car, never disconneceted a terminal once...

Thumb_Thumbs · Jul 26, 2012

Jedy617 said:
Hey guys, I am installing an air intake and the instructions say to disconnect the negative battery terminal... but how do you do it? I assume you have to go through the trunk?

It's a pain in the ass to disconnect the battery terminal. To be honest it's not worth the gains of an intake.

merkeyterkey · Jul 26, 2012

It's this one (the black one).

Take that shit off with a wrench and viola, the negative terminal is off.

Edit* just so you know thats not a picture of your battery, and yes your battery is in the hatch

wolfpack 1.8t · Jul 26, 2012

:lol:

qcbtbx · Jul 26, 2012

Jedy617 said:
Hey guys, I am installing an air intake and the instructions say to disconnect the negative battery terminal... but how do you do it? I assume you have to go through the trunk?

You can just go in ur trunk and disconnect, but i am not sure if that is necessary.

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UGFast89 · Jul 26, 2012

:lol:

if you couldnt figure that out then BEWARE of the intake.

Jedy617 · Jul 26, 2012

UGFast89 said:
:lol:

if you couldnt figure that out then BEWARE of the intake.

Believe me, I am having no problem at all with the intake besides the fact I do not have security torx bits. There wasn't really anything to figure out, just confirming what I thought before beginning.

Jedy617 · Jul 26, 2012

I'm just making sure you don't actually need to disconnect the negative terminal.

ikey3125 · Jul 27, 2012

I've never disconnected my battery...

I've had the MAF disconnected and had no issues, added wires to my fuse box without disconnecting the battery...no issues whats so ever

firstorbit84 · Jul 27, 2012

Only real time I'd want to disconnect battery is when messing with airbag stuff, or maybe when pulling the ecu

UGFast89 · Jul 27, 2012

Jedy617 said:
Believe me, I am having no problem at all with the intake besides the fact I do not have security torx bits. There wasn't really anything to figure out, just confirming what I thought before beginning.

Cheers, its all good. Though I never disconnected my battery terminal. Then again I bought my intake used with no instructions.

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