Audi 5+5 · Battery replacement
The right battery for your 5+5, fitted where the car is, with the charging system tested before we sell you anything. Covers model years 1981-1983.
We fit Audi 5+5 batteries where the car is — office parking, driveway, or the hard shoulder — and we test the charging system before we sell you anything.
With a range ending in 1983, this is very likely a conventional car with no start-stop system, which means a good standard battery in the correct group size does the job. AGM would last longer but you would be paying for cycle life the car never uses.
The 2.0 TFSI water pump and thermostat module is a heat-related failure we see constantly, and it usually announces itself as a coolant smell before a warning light. For the battery specifically: park in shade where you can, drive far enough to actually recharge rather than only starting the car, and have it load-tested before summer rather than after. A battery that reads 12.4 volts at rest can still fail its load test, and the load test is the one that predicts the morning it does not start.
The 5+5 is a saloon, which usually means a mid-size battery in an accessible bonnet position. That is not a detail — battery choice is driven as much by physical size, hold-down type and parked current draw as it is by cranking amps, and getting one of the three wrong is how a correctly-specified battery ends up failing early.
AGM throughout most of the range, with battery coding required so the energy management system knows what it is charging. On the 5+5 specifically, which the vehicle database lists across model years 1981 to 1983, the safe approach is to read the label on the battery that is in the car now and match its group size, terminal side and capacity — or to give us the year and let us look it up.
Same workshop, same technicians. Open a service for what it involves on your car.
Fitted at your location. Tell us the year and we will give you the exact price before we set off.
On this range it is under the bonnet, boot on A6 and above. If yours is a variant where it sits elsewhere, we will confirm before quoting.
Call, or send your location on WhatsApp. We will tell you the price before we set off.
