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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on the specific car. We have a 2011 Ford Escape and we replaced the battery ourselves last year. The battery itself is in an area where it’s fairly straightforward to access it - under the floor plate of the rear cargo area. It took about 3 hours of removing stuff to get the battery ready to come out, then we had to stop because we didn’t have the special release tool for the connector for the power cable. We ended up making one based on some pics we found on the web of the specialized tool, which wasn’t in stock anywhere. That added another couple days. We pulled the old battery, put the new one in, and took another half day getting the car put back together again. Cost for the battery was $5,200 including $1,700 for shipping for the new battery and return shipping for the old battery. Apparently the shipping costs are crazy high because of the dangers associated with battery fires. The instructions said to re-use the plastic shipping container for the old battery and schedule a pick up, which is what we did. All told it took about 2 months from ordering the battery to getting it and replacing it and getting the old one shipped back. The car was only out of service for the time we actually had it taken apart - about a week. We saved about $3,000 doing it this way, the dealership wanted $8,100 for a battery replacement. [/quote]

Wow, thank you for replying. This is a sobering expense, even when doing it yourself. [/quote]

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