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conoflex
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New Battery which one ?
« on: Dec 5th, 2007, 12:28pm » |
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Hi All,
stupid question time i'm afraid  , i need a new battery for my 1998 2.9 24v which one do you lovely people recommend  ? value for money etc
Thanks Andy
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Re: New Battery which one ?
« Reply #1 on: Dec 5th, 2007, 4:50pm » |
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The Biggest capacity with the best warranty that you can find that FITS the battery tray ... At least 72 amp hours ...
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Re: New Battery which one ?
« Reply #2 on: Dec 5th, 2007, 9:23pm » |
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Halfords have good batterys, Mines a calcium with 4 years guarantee in a 98 cossie 24v.
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Jonnycab
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Re: New Battery which one ?
« Reply #3 on: Dec 6th, 2007, 4:09am » |
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You could consider changing the terminals from square to round as I did.
There seems to be alot more round terminal batteries about than square terminal ones & they seem to be cheaper as well  ..... New terminals are about £7.00 for a pair of good heavy duty ones 
I paid £45 for my 680 amp round terminal cadnium (calsium) battery from my local motor factors. If I'd wanted the equivalent square terminal battery then they would have had to order one in & it would have been about £65 
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Re: New Battery which one ?
« Reply #4 on: Dec 6th, 2007, 6:48am » |
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on Dec 6th, 2007, 4:09am, jonnycab wrote:You could consider changing the terminals from square to round as I did.
There seems to be alot more round terminal batteries about than square terminal ones & they seem to be cheaper as well ..... New terminals are about £7.00 for a pair of good heavy duty ones
I paid £40 for my 680 amp round terminal cadnium (calsium) battery from my local motor factors. If I'd wanted the equivalent square terminal battery then they would have had to order one in & it would have been about £65
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hi jc
that's a good tip. thanks for that.
regards
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conoflex
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Re: New Battery which one ?
« Reply #5 on: Dec 6th, 2007, 11:24am » |
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very good idea changing terminals, will look into that, heres another good one for you all to ponder my mate is using a leisure battery on his transit and as it happens i have new ones (85ah) round post here wondering what you htink about using one of them ??
Andy
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Jonnycab
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Re: New Battery which one ?
« Reply #6 on: Dec 6th, 2007, 1:46pm » |
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Just so as to avoid any confusion....when I said terminals, I didn't mean the actual battery terminals, but the lead terminals
Thought I'd clear that up before anyone started trying to yank the posts out with a pair of pliers
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conoflex
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Re: New Battery which one ?
« Reply #7 on: Dec 6th, 2007, 1:50pm » |
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on Dec 6th, 2007, 1:46pm, jonnycab wrote:Just so as to avoid any confusion....when I said terminals, I didn't mean the actual battery terminals, but the lead terminals
Thought I'd clear that up before anyone started trying to yank the posts out with a pair of pliers |
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OH b****r and i've broke 3 hacksaw blades trying to shape em 
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Re: New Battery which one ?
« Reply #8 on: Dec 7th, 2007, 4:20am » |
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on Dec 6th, 2007, 1:50pm, conoflex wrote:
OH b****r and i've broke 3 hacksaw blades trying to shape em |
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Re: New Battery which one ?
« Reply #9 on: Dec 7th, 2007, 4:22pm » |
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hi there dont change batery terminals with out your totally 110% compitant at doing this eg..an auto electricain-because you can cause more problems than you cure-eg each strand off wire that doenst contact causes high resistance and the scorpio usses multi plex wiring system which dont take kindly too surges off any kind-do your self a favour pay that little bit more and fit VARTA BATTERY-been using them for yrs without-trouble-heres a simple fact for you-pick up a cheap one then pick up a varta one-you WILL notice the varta one is more heavey because its got more lead coverage than its competitors-hope this helps.karl.
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