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Offline Khare

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Battery recommendations
« on: 02 October 2010, 17:18 »
Anyone recommend a decent car battery? Looking at doing it as cheaply as possible, but finding the balance between value and performance.
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Offline Bellend

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Re: Battery recommendations
« Reply #1 on: 02 October 2010, 17:58 »
Can I just unrecommended Halfords ones? They are total sh!t and have had two three year warranty ones  die within a year, one lasted 6 months.  :rolleyes:

Both put into MK3's by previous owners.
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Re: Battery recommendations
« Reply #2 on: 02 October 2010, 18:15 »
Didn't think of halfords crap, I usually avoid their brand apart from professional tools.
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Re: Battery recommendations
« Reply #3 on: 02 October 2010, 18:26 »
Ahh good, their tools in the Pro range are very nice.  :cool:

They are second to my Snap-On  :tongue:

Kells made a thread on this a while a go, I'll try find it.
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Re: Battery recommendations
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Re: Battery recommendations
« Reply #5 on: 02 October 2010, 18:39 »
my mate has a battery shop i can recomend, never had any problems with his batterys, its called advanced batterys in stockport, they deliver all round the country. hth adi. http://www.advancedbatterysupplies.co.uk/
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Re: Battery recommendations
« Reply #6 on: 02 October 2010, 19:47 »
Quote from: adi on 02 October 2010, 18:39
my mate has a battery shop i can recomend, never had any problems with his batterys, its called advanced batterys in stockport, they deliver all round the country. hth adi. http://www.advancedbatterysupplies.co.uk/

Cheap mate. I'm gonna call ECP though, £33 + VAT for a bosch, and I'll always trust bosch. If prices have crept up though I'll give your friend a call and confirm which one I need.  :smiley:

Oh and thanks for like Josho :afro:
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Re: Battery recommendations
« Reply #7 on: 02 October 2010, 19:50 »
Quote from: Khare on 02 October 2010, 17:18
Anyone recommend a decent car battery? Looking at doing it as cheaply as possible, but finding the balance between value and performance.

Duracell  :evil:

Paul
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Re: Battery recommendations
« Reply #8 on: 02 October 2010, 20:14 »
Quote from: Paul86S2 on 02 October 2010, 19:50
Quote from: Khare on 02 October 2010, 17:18
Anyone recommend a decent car battery? Looking at doing it as cheaply as possible, but finding the balance between value and performance.

Duracell  :evil:

Paul
:grin: :grin: :grin: They should make car batteries!

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Re: Battery recommendations
« Reply #9 on: 07 October 2010, 17:47 »
Quote from: adi on 02 October 2010, 18:39
my mate has a battery shop i can recomend, never had any problems with his batterys, its called advanced batterys in stockport, they deliver all round the country. hth adi. http://www.advancedbatterysupplies.co.uk/

Adi, got the battery from there. I've yet to try it on the car as the starter motor is bust but tomorrow I'll get the chance. Voltmeter showed 12.79v though so it's fully charged, and with 605 cold cranking amps and 60aH it seems a good battery (Website showed 570 cold cranking amps for this battery, but the sticker on the battery shows more). Also the one I received looks identical to the varta one http://www.advancedbatterysupplies.co.uk/carbatteryvartablued59.html except it hasn't got any stickers regarding the manufacturer or model. Seems a good deal though, £45 delivered with 4 years guarantee, can't really go wrong can it? Thanks for the recommendation  :smiley:
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