How to buy the battery.

 

how I get it to buy.

 

How do I get the Toyota Camry 12volt Hybrid to buy.

 

I'm confused. Are you wanting to buy a Camry Hybrid, a 12 volt battery for a Camry Hybrid or do you need a traction battery for a Camry
hybrid?

If you are needing a 12 volt replacement battery like the replacement Optima's that are mentioned on here, any local auto parts store should have them in stock (if you live in the USA).

 

Hello, I just purchased a used 2007 TCH, and within the first week the 12V battery died on me. It was the original battery, so it was understandable. I purchased a replacement and have installed it, but my 'Check Hybrid System' message is still coming up when I drive. Just wondering if I could get some help with the system restart that was mentioned in the first post of the thread. Thanks!

 

Sitting in the drivers seat, turn the car on and wait for the "ready" light to appear. Turn the car off and repeat two more times (three power cycles). If the ready light is still on at that point, it will take a scanner to reset the light after checking to see that you do not have other issues.

 

Ok that sounds good thanks! It has not reset yet, so I'll bring it in to get it checked out

 

Hi everyone,

Think I found a good replacement battery at Canadian Tire (battery made by Exide).

Group 24F AGM battery

Length: 10"
W: 6.5"
H: 7 13/16"

Has vent hole.

CCA 710 and CA 850

$200 Canadian vs $510 at dealership for OEM

Only weird thing is the position of the poles are reversed but that won't be an issue.

Anyone know the specifications of the OEM battery ?

Any comments on if the above battery should work ?

Thanks everyone, this forum is great.

 

IIRC, the OEM battery is 53 AH or so? Exide also offers a regular 24 size that has the Positive (Red) terminal on the left IIRC, also other sizes with 53 AH IIRC. I guess any 12V AGM battery with an AH capacity of > 45 AH would work if it fits. I am thinking about using the OEM Toyota Prius battery rated at 45 AH (84 month pro-rated warranty from the Toyota dealer), when it's time for my 2007 TCH. Unless you use the accessories without the car turned on this should be good enough. Also, make sure to pry the thermal sensor off of the old battery and attach it to the new battery (thermal glue?).

 

Finally got to the point where I had to replace the battery. I'd been getting by with occasional recharges from a trickle charger, but that finally stopped working.

I've been hearing a LOT of negative info about the quality of Optima batteries; that the quality had taken a severe nose-dive when the factory was moved to Mexico. I looked around a bit and talked to a local battery specialty shop, the guy there was not impressed with them either, saying that he had been exchanging them under warranty at about a 100% rate: "10 out of 10" going bad, even at the shorter warraty period enacted after the factory relocation.

He was trying to push me to another battery, with the name X2(?), but that would have been $300.00 by the time taxes were included. I told him I could afford that if I could figure out a way not to buy groceries for a month, and decided to go online.

I entered Group 35 AGM battery into Google, and started looking at the results. The one I stopped on was a Bosch Platinum at Pep Boys (a regional chain parts store) that had a 25% discount for online orders over $100.00. The list price was $189.00 and the discount brought it to $142.50. Taxes brought it to about $155.00 after I brought back the old one (core charge).

The main difference was that the terminals are 'backwards' on the OEM battery, but I was able to get the connectors on the terminals by putting them at the back of the enclosure. It just took a little bit of fiddling.

The vent hose fitting pulled out of the OEM battery and fit into a hole on the new one with no trouble.

The temp sensor pull out of the hot glue easily, and was hot glued and duct taped to the new battery. Duct tape was to keep the sensor in place
until the glue cooled.

Since this was a group project with a couple of my sons' friends, the sensor didn't get hooked up at first. So when the car 'booted up', the "Check Hybrid System" error message appeared. One of the kids has a scanner, so it was applied to the car. (He was imressed that it had the info for the Camry Hybrid) and it showed a Batt Temp Sensor error. Plugging it in cured that, and the car is now happy.


I'm attaching a photo of the same battery, but branded for Exide. The guy at the parts store said that they are manufactured in the U.S.A. by Johnson Controls for Bosch, Exide, and probably others.

While this was almost exactly the same size as the OEM unit, I did note that it was quite a bit heavier, by 5 to 8 pounds. I note that the weight of batteries is often associated with the quality; the heavier, the better, due to the amount of metal / number of plates. The old one lasted 5 years in Phoenix, so I'm hoping for a like lifespan on this one, maybe even better.