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The worst* make of cars is now hoping to fuck over their consumers even more.
* can't change the fucking battery unless you take half the fucking engine area apart.
Really? My battery is under my spare in the trunk.
My lithium batteries on the other hand I think you have to remove the back seats to access, but I honestly hope I can afford to trade it in before I need it.
I mean, you low key proving OPs point. That is a pain in the ass to get to. For basically, forever it's been under the hood in the front, and the easiest thing to get to.
I wasn't trying to disprove the point, I was just curious what ford vehicles the battery is up front and impossible to remove.
And honestly, for how often a battery needs to be removed, under the spare tire in the back is not bad at all, and there are still jump points under the hood and easily accessible. Clearly labeled too.
Probably talking about an Escape. Half the battery is under the wiper cowl, but it's still not bad to change if you know what you're doing.
An old escape maybe? Mine is a '21 and definitely not like that.
It is a 2014 Ford Escape. But this is not the only experience of this sort that I've had with Ford.
Yeah, but on a car with electric locks, and an electric lift gate which I'm assuming yours has (could be mechanical, but most cars these days are crossovers, so I'm assuming that's what you have) a dead battery means you can't open the trunk latch. It's absolutely a stupid place to put it. You either have to jump it to open the hatch, or go over the back seats while taking out the floor panels to get to it. My own car, the battery is under the hood, but there's 2 plastic pieces that need to come off via push clips, and if you're stranded and don't have something to push in the clips and pull them out, you're going to have to rip the piece off to get to the battery and break the clips or the plastic piece. It's fairly simple, but that plastic serves almost no purpose.
My car was too cheap to have an electric liftgate, though I don't know if I can open it with a dead battery - never tried, and never had a battery so dead it needed replacing that urgently. Very possible it doesn't open with a dead battery though, at least if the vehicle is locked when the battery dies.
A pain in the ass was Chrysler's brilliant idea to put the battery in the wheel well. You have to take the tire off, remove the fender liner then pray the hold down bolts don't break (they will) then deal with trying to get the cables off with hardly any room.
Wow. Brilliant minds from Stellantis hard at work