On Monday, 28 November 2016 11:08:21 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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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.

It might be they just didn't fit one. The way Lada imports worked it was normal to need to do remedial work on the vehicles before sale.


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

obviously I'm not. But keep up the bs

yet happy to
drive around in a potentially lethal vehicle.

All vehicles are potentially lethal. Odd that you haven't worked that out.


NT