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Battery recommendations ?
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 13 9:22 am
by morgan
Anyone got anything they particularly love ?
Doesnt need to be authentic looking (dont care!) so no £500-period-correct-reproduction-yellow-endcapped specials needed...
My existing battery is a small, halfords brand, 10 year old. Done very well. Want something with more grunt. Size obviously not a problem - battery tray big enough.
Anyone bought anything they particularly like ? Or dislike ? Or had blow up/melt etc etc... ?
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 13 9:34 am
by Dave-R
Optima Yellow Top.
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 13 10:00 am
by Adrian Worman
I've had a Bosch battery in my chally for over a decade and it works bootiful, starts after lengthy periods no sweat, can't remember the last time I had to connect a starter to it
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 13 10:08 am
by charger01
One off a transit diesel.
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 13 10:10 am
by Charger
I got a cheap and cheerful local motor spares special 7 years ago, works a treat, 70aH, the secret is to keep it topped up with a battery conditioner
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 13 10:26 am
by Pete
A big Bananarama! off diesel battery that can be shoe-horned into the tray.
Some companys are offering "Lifetime that you own the vehicle" warrenties and register the battery to a car. Might be worth doing that....
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 13 10:28 am
by AllKiller
Optima Yellow or Red Top... on the right hand rear side as you look in the boot
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 13 11:04 am
by autofetish
Dave wrote:Optima Yellow Top.
yep used them very good
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 13 11:19 am
by morgan
Yellotop 55Ah 650cca ~£200
Redtop 50Ah 800cca ~£150
Bosch110 80Ah 720cca ~£110
Bosch is enormous, but I have room and the price is more attractive. Yellow top looks great though
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 13 11:25 am
by autofetish
we use to run yellow top in sound cars 5x battery's loads of music
they use spiral cells so you can run them total flat and then recharge great for music cars at shows.
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 13 12:54 pm
by ANTON
http://www.alpha-batteries.co.uk/4x4-ba ... r-battery/
This is the one on my Charger and once you remove all the stickers it is plain black and looks good.
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 13 1:19 pm
by morgan
Thread conclusion - Thanks to all (as always) for the input.
In the end our winner was dr.Worman. The combination of local availability, massive capacity, brand and middle-road-price won out.
( Yellowtop definately won on 'looks great' !
)
Anyway - thanks to all.
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 13 2:24 pm
by AllKiller
could of got you an Optima from Apsley motor spares in Hemel
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 13 4:26 pm
by morgan
When this one goes bang at 4yrs 1 day I'll call ya !
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 13 5:02 pm
by AllKiller
Yeah I know built in failure one day after guarantee
