That's pretty much what my battery looked like in the E420. It sounded like a baseball had been dropped on the trunk from a 20 story building.
A Bang so loud, I involuntarily shouted out an expletive.

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein


09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D