Removing and installing earth cable with battery monitor control unit J367, battery in luggage compartment — VW
Removing and installing earth cable with battery monitor control unit J367, battery in luggage compartment on VW: 14 steps.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Polo 6C (2014–2017)
📋 Procedure
- Switch off ignition.
- Remove ignition key.
- Lift luggage compartment floor, and attach it to body.
- If fitted, remove spare wheel.
- Remove vehicle tool kit.
- Open cover (3) for negative battery terminal.
- Loosen nut a few turns.
- Pull battery terminal clamp (6) of earth cable off negative battery terminal.
- Disconnect electrical connector (7).
- Cut through cable tie (1).
- Lay earth cable (4) to one side (arrows).
- Remove nut (5).
- Remove earth wire with battery monitor control unit J367(2).
- Connecting battery .
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TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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