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Originally Posted by rondeo
You can see what sort of battery you have by flipping the positive terminal lid and using a torch. If it is a Ford silver calcium it will likely be the original.
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I'd already observed a sticker on the positive terminal end identifying it as a Motorcraft DIN75L MF, which would suggest it's a replacement. But, if the BATTERY_AGE figure is to be believed, then it would have been installed shortly after the car was manufactured. So I was looking for some kind of date mark to corroborate whether the battery was really that old, or if it's a case of the day counter not having been reset. But it's impossible to see anything more of the battery (including the colour in the status window waaay down near the negative terminal end), without physically removing it.
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Originally Posted by rondeo
extracts from the Ford workshop manual...
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Thanks. So it sounds like the BMS is continuously recalibrating itself, so there is no reset required to work with a new battery (it effectively resets automatically) except to restart the counter.