Batteries tend to be fairly well accessible on most of even the tight-engine-bay japanese econoboxes, though I have seen an expensive german car or two with engine bay covers across everything and most of the battery that you'd have to take off before doing pretty much anything with the engine.
(incidentally, I see my comment above was mostly superfluous. Drat.)
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Date: 2006-11-22 07:14 pm (UTC)(incidentally, I see my comment above was mostly superfluous. Drat.)