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Old 10-01-2008, 08:10 PM   #79 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bennelson View Post
I am not so sure about the battery tray in this car either.

All the manuals and everything always show a very particular arrangement of batteries, which I can not imagine fitting in this car.

Is it possible the battery tray is modified?

I will try to take and post a clean photo of the battery tray sometime soon.
This has been discussed at the C-car forum, there are 2 setups that can be a problem.

1. Car was 36 volt (not enough room for 9 batteries)
2. Car was designed for the "Olde Fashioned" 6 volt trojan t105 battery size which is skinnier than a normal 6 volter today.

As a side note Citicars never came with 8 volt batteries from the factory only 6v with one 12 volt aka 9 batteries

The easiest solution if your car is one of those categories is to build a front battery box and bolt it on the front or rear bumper (or both)

My car has space for 14 batteries
6 up front
4 under the seat and 4 in the rear box.

I probably would break the springs if I did that though.

Good Luck
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