Volkswagen Golf Service & Repair Manual: Battery with »enhanced« colour indicator
| This is a maintenance-free battery with liquid electrolyte
(wet battery). |
Caution
| No stickers may be removed and do not replenish with
distilled water. Only perform a visual check. Refer to
chapter, Checking battery
→ Chapter. |
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WARNING
| It is not permissible to test or charge batteries
whose colour indicator is light yellow. Do not
slave/jump start the vehicle! |
| Danger of explosion when checking and charging or
slave/jump starting. |
| These batteries must be renewed. |
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| The battery is used for particular requirements in certain
stop-start vehicles. The battery can be identified by the
lettering “EFB” on the battery cover. “EFB” stands for
»enhanced flooded battery«. |
| An “EFB” battery may only be replaced with another “EFB”
battery. |
| The “EFB” battery has a colour indicator to enable the
electrolyte level to be checked. |
| Checking the colour indicator
→ Chapter |
 Note
| “EFB” batteries have been used in the smaller petrol engines
with stop-start systems and manual gearboxes since 05.2011. |
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