Hello Guys and Girls, welcome to my Vespa tips and tricks and today the Vespa GTS 300
How to replace the battery so what you're going to need is you're going to
need a tamper-proof bit and you're going to need a pretty
large Phillips screwdriver and you're going to need your brand new battery
obviously check with your local dealer or just check online make sure that
you've got the right one so this is my Vespa GTS 300 here just to prove that
it is that which I know it is because there it is. Right let's get cracking, right
so the battery is under this panel and you've got 4 tamper proof bits on the
corners of there. It's basically like a star-shaped tool so
just to get them undone just get a ratchet just to get them moving
obviously anti-clockwise to undo so just get them a little bit loose, I wouldn't
go mad on that and I'm just gonna speed this up because you don't need to see
this. Once you've got them a little bit loose you can just do it with your
fingers so I'm just gonna whip them off with my fingers and let's speed this up
again because you don't need to see this at normal speed otherwise we will be
here all day! Right let's go, okay so once you've got all four of those screws out you
can just gently lift up the panel
and there is the battery and you've got basically a battery cover over the top
of it just to stop it moving. You need to remove that and then obviously remove
the battery terminals so I'm just going to come around the other side of the
Vespa and get cracking so you've got your Phillips screwdriver there on the
negative and a Phillips screwdriver there on the positive and then that's
the just the case to stop it moving about which is screwed down as well so
my advice is just get a dirty old rag or a clean rag and once you've got the
terminal off the first one make sure you wrap it in the rag because what you
don't want to do is take one of the bolts off on the terminals the battery
obviously is still trying to pump out electricity and you could get a short or
a spark so just make sure once you've taken it off just wrap it up in the
cloth there. So let's just get these undone obviously don't have to use an
electric screwdriver you can use any old screwdriver so let me just gently lift
this one off and I'm just going to wrap it up in this old t-shirt just for my
own peace of mind really. I just don't want any sparks flying anywhere
because we don't want the sparks flying. I mean I get sparks flying
when I walk into a pub but that's another story! Right let's get the
positive lead off and again obviously now it's all completely off the
battery's no need to wrap it up but I'm just going to do that anyway
right now we need to get the cover off of off of the top and this is
just again a Phillips screwdriver same I use the same bit
this is just plastic this is basically just to stop the battery moving around
really. Okay so this will just lift off now and that is it the battery is ready
to be removed so I'm just going to go around the other side again and really
need two hands for this but I'm gonna try it with one hand because it's not
too heavy, come on yes, here we go, and make sure you take the old battery to
your local recycling center do not put your old battery in the bin whatever you
do because we need to look after this planet okay. It sits in there in a small
plastic tray and you can see it's very disappointing in this Vespa only 4 years
old we have got rust problems I mean it's very low mileage mine it's only
4 years old what you can also do is just take out this tray which is the
battery sits in, it's only plastic and you can see the rust that I've got I mean my
Vespa is low mileage, there's another link above about how to treat this rust
and how to sort it out. Right now anyway we won't worry about this at the
particular minute so here is my brand new battery that I've purchased this
will all be fully charged and this is ready to go in obviously put the
plastic tray back in and then put the battery back in make sure you put it in
the right way round and then basically it is a reversal of what you did when
you took it out. So we just need to get those leads back on and again let's just
speed this process up now obviously be careful if you've got an electric
screwdriver never just go straight in with the electric always start
tightening it manually first because what you don't want to do is cross
thread anything so if you cross thread something that it's gonna
be a nightmare so just always do it manually first once you can feel it
biting its going in then you can use the electric so that's the positive one on
it doesn't have to be mega tight just you know reasonably tight let's get the
positive one on I mean the negative here we go right that's lined up on the
threads just get this one on okay. Let's get the cover back on, this can
only go on one way you'll see where the holes are can literally so you can't get
the wrong way around. So just line it up with those holes
there and then just get those screws back in obviously be for careful when
you're putting the screws into those holes don't drop them because then it'll
disappear and you have to take it all out again. Right just line it
up get it going with your fingers once you've got it going with your fingers and you
can just turn it with your screwdriver.
Alright let's tighten this up okay here we go that's all done this one is a
slightly awkward angle so just be careful that you don't thread it well
that's nice and tight the battery is solid so let's get the lid on so I'll
just come back around the other side again so just line up those holes it
should just go straight and all the holes already lined up and let's get
these 4 screws back in and I'm going to speed this up and then once we've
tightened it all up just obviously hand tighten it and then just for the final
bit use your ratchet but don't over tighten them, no need to over
tighten them just a small turn on there just to make sure they don't fall out
right next thing just make sure it's all working and let's start it up
let's fire up this beast so you can see 2,700 miles kilometers it's done and
I've got rust problems I mean it's garaged all the time.
Very disappointing the workmanship underneath and it's not covered under
warranty by Piaggio either as I say there's that link earlier about how to treat the
rust so there is good job great job. Probably should replace the battery
every 4 or 5 years. Hello everybody Lurgs here that is the
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