The Veteran

Your thoughts please.
After an operation on my hip I have been unable to use my car, an 07 hawkeye 2.5 Sti., and I now find myself with a flat battery. Rather than mess about recharging what is wide'ly thought of as poor standed battery, I thought I would treat my car to a new one from Halfords.
Do you think it better to spend the extra on buying a Bosch Silver battery as oppose to the cheaper Halfords one.
I hopefully intend to keep the car for a further 5 years, and so may'be the 5 year waranty fits in well.

scixer6r

Dont buy a cheap one as these cars need alot of charge to get started,i tried recharging one for my 2.5 & it kept going flat so had a new one fitted.Dont forget to keep side lights on whilst driving as these cars have so called intelligent alternators.

The Veteran

Thanks for your reply I have noted your points, and I will do as you suggest.

mgcvk

A lot of battery posts at the moment! The Halfords Calcium batteries are good at £82 with four year guarantee. Not sure how much extra the Bosch one is.

andy97

iTrader: (1)

If you are not using your car for long periods (2 weeks or more), then buy a quality charger/maintenance system.

Ctek are regarded as being good quality and reasonable on price.

Plug it in and forget, it does the rest.

Have a look at MDS battery website.
Andy

MotoCare Ltd

Hi,
We got a full range of ctek in stock for quick delivery if you get stuck...
follow the link below

cheers

MotoCare Ltd

Hi,
We got a full range of ctek in stock for quick delivery if you get stuck...
follow the link below

cheers

The Veteran

Hope to be past fit next week to start driving again, so what, if any,are the consequences of a flat battery going to be to my remapped ECU, the Tracker,and presumable the radio code, which incidentally I seem unable to find.
I would be grateful for your advice on how to obtain the code along with your thoughts on how it may affect the other electronics.