Bought a new battery: wow

Just thought I would feed back that I fitted a new battery and what a difference. the old battery was hanging in there and was three or so years old. The car has always taken a couple of turns to start. But recently has been going low over a few days (don't laugh have been cycling to work during the week, Docs suggestion). The wireless door bell and weather station have flattened it twice. So with the impending cold weather thought I would change it and now it is leaping in to life literally hardly turning over and it is going.

Fitted a bosch 334 from alpha-batteries for £120 with 5yr warranty!

Diesel Dt by the way.
V happpy.

you could of got 1 from battery megastore delivered for £100 135AH 1000cc.

sas1810 said:

you could of got 1 from battery megastore delivered for £100 135AH 1000cc.

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4 year warrantee ?

2.0_hippo said:

4 year warrantee ?

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it is on mine

Bosch is 5 years

2.0_hippo said:

Bosch is 5 years

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had Bosch in the past, never liked them. personal preference i guess

Merc always used Bosch and Varta. the amount of warranty claims was unreal. but that was a few years ago now

Mine had a varta in before, it didn't last a year with the power hungry l322

Just being doing a little bit of digging and it turns out that Alphaline batteries and Numax for that matter are actually Varta. Same factory, same production line just a different sticker - and price. Makes the Alphaline even more desirable.

I've got one of these on mine.
1000CCA, 130AH, 4yr warranty, free delivery. Can't fault it.

ALPHALINE 12V 130 AH 663/664 HEAVY DUTY LORRY/TRUCK BATTERY | eBay

Well it was a last minute purchase as needed to get it delivered next day to my dad who was coming over to Jersey in the Ferry. The local guy did not have the correct CC sized battery and wanted a very large sum of money for the right battery and couldn't give me a delivery date, 3 months or so.......

I suppose the bottom line is that it makes me wonder if the battery that was fitted when I bought the bronze wonder is whether the old battery had the correct CC rating.

Jerseyp38 said:

Well it was a last minute purchase as needed to get it delivered next day to my dad who was coming over to Jersey in the Ferry. The local guy did not have the correct CC sized battery and wanted a very large sum of money for the right battery and couldn't give me a delivery date, 3 months or so.......

I suppose the bottom line is that it makes me wonder if the battery that was fitted when I bought the bronze wonder is whether the old battery had the correct CC rating.

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probably not. if the previous owner did it on a budjet, could of fitted anything without knowing

sas1810 said:

you could of got 1 from battery megastore delivered for £100 135AH 1000cc.

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Not sure he would have got free delivery to Jersey from battery megastore.

kevwill said:

Not sure he would have got free delivery to Jersey from battery megastore.

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From the French branch maybe