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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GTamas" data-source="post: 1586353" data-attributes="member: 30240">Are you sure about the 59?I had to replace my battery now and I struggled to find in my country one that is not bigger than  group 58 size and has  CCA and Ah not worse than the stock battery at least, while also the terminals are located correctly.The biggest bottleneck was the terminal location: big majority of the batteries that would fit have the negative and positive batteries the other way around.I read Group 59 has a height of 7 3/4 inches (196mm) so I felt lucky when I found a VARTA battery that is  242 (L) x 175 (W) x 190 (H) mm.Turns out it is too high, I can't close the hood. :-(I don't want to relocate it to the trunk and I don't want to buy a battery that is weak by Ah and CCA, so I'm thinking how to fit it under the hood. I think I need to win  ca. 10mm space.One thing I'm thinking about is modifying the battery tray to be more low profile. Do you think it is doable, or is there any reason the tray is raised like that?[ATTACH=full]49248[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]49249[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]49250[/ATTACH]</blockquote>