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MrCheerful wrote:
Lada Riva. Commer walkthrough.

The Lada Riva battery was secured by J bolts and a bit of pressed angle
steel with two nuts.

Here is a picture of the engine bay of one:
http://www.origo.hu/auto/20111202-la...uplateszt.html

Thanks for that. If ever a car needed a secure battery it would be
something like a Riva. Where the original Fiat shell was strengthened for
poor Russian roads.

So, any examples of a production car with no battery clamping
arrangements as standard (as opposed to just left off)?

A loose battery in a car represents real and significant danger.

Very odd Mr Purr is so concerned with battery charger safety yet happy to
drive around in a potentially lethal vehicle.

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*I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize *

Dave Plowman London SW
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