The Rig

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heard some batteries are better for some makes of cars.

£75 for a decent varta battery,good price ?

60 ah

540 cold test crank

cheers

The Hoff

iTrader: (5)

Seems pricey to me mate. I paid £40 at Stonehouse Autoparts 4 years ago for and its about time I change it now.

Dont see why one make would be better for a car?

The Rig

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ive done a search and most are £70 - £75

found one for £64 but £9 postage so weighs up about the same, bar a few quid

cant find any cheaper than with postage, £73 so the local place for £75 aint too bad really

The Hoff

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Why are you stuck on Varta?

jasonius

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I'm sure you'll get a decent battery from halfords, especially if you ask nicely for some discount (say you can get one cheaper, but would like to buy local if possible).

A lot of SN users seem to use Halfords for replacements.

The Rig

iTrader: (13)

varta,pretty good batteries.

not keen on halfords,like yuasa,dont seem to last long if not used for a period,ie you go on holiday !

varta batteries,u can leave the radio on before starting the car and it doesnt go off,halfords ones,pah !
even halfords ones are £60+

ha ha

cheers all

IPALMER

iTrader: (5)

the newest batch of Halfords branded batteries are now made by Varta

the old ones were made by Yuasa

Tart Man

The Yuasa ones were pretty good. Would leave my Landy for best part of six monthe between off-roading seasons and it would always fire up....plus it needed 30second of cranking to get the fuel pressure up (mechanicle pump).

It died when the rough off roading flexed the casing and shorted a cell (quite common on lots of batteries when used for hard off roading). Would still start it but the alternator didn't like it being a 10volt battery and boiled it.


If your going to keep your car a long time, Try a Unipart Samson battery with lifetime guarantee....its a normal 3/4yr battery but they'll replace it for free for as long as you own the car

salsa-king

just bought a Varta battery friday.. was £49.99 and got it for 40.

its for my Smart Roadster but I still wanted a good one

speedking

Don't know what the differences are, but Bosch Asia Silver batteries are 'specially designed' for Far Eastern motors

finchyboy

Prior to the scooby i ran VW's and BMW's alway's went for Bosch and never had a problem.

satancom

I bought two batteries for my landy (24v ug) from my local MFR's think the pair cost me £20.. My landy also sits for a month or two between use and has not failed to start..

If my scoob battery needrs replacing, I will replace it with similar battery! SO waht if ist only lasts two years.. its only £20

farmerwrx

i worked for yuasa for 18 years