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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

My wife's old Mercedes had to go back to the dealer after changing the battery. All four windows, and the sunroof had to be reset to and the car had to be introduced to the battery.

Her current Macan has to use a computer to reset the car when the battery is changed.

I bought the Autel scanner just to do oil changes and battery replacements. Skipping one dealership oil change will pay for the oil if I do the oil change myself.

I will say the Autel was easy to use, as it red the vin automatically, and reset the oil change due alert.

When the battery goes dead in my wife's Outback, the power windows stop working from the driver's door switches, but they'll work from the switches on the other doors (local to the window). But you can reset the windows from the car. Something like "turn the car to "on" (but don't start it), roll the window all of the way up and back down with the switch on the door." (or something like that). Once I've done that, the windows work for all of the switches.

But it's just a regular computer thing. That's weird about introducing the car to the battery. I don't think that's the same though. I don't think the battery has a digital signature that has to be programmed into the car or it won't work at all, and I suspect there's a way that it could be done without being an issue, but maybe I'm wrong.