Time to replace the battery

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Adymars
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Time to replace the battery

Post by Adymars » Sun Nov 15, 2020 11:46 am

Yes its that time of year ! I need to replace the battery. When I bought the car it was advertised with having a new battery. Great i thought but in further investigation it was a cheap aftermarket one that isn't up too firing up the beast in cold weather. I do have a trickle charger but even that isn't making much difference now. Can I have the groups recommendations please for a decent replacement. I have a 2007 cabrio.
Cheers in advance.

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mikep99
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Re: Time to replace the battery

Post by mikep99 » Sun Nov 15, 2020 12:03 pm

I went for a stop start AGM battery as my drives tend to be quite short:
https://www.tayna.co.uk/car-batteries/varta/h15/

HTH
Mike

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Re: Time to replace the battery

Post by Adymars » Sun Nov 15, 2020 1:44 pm

Cheers Mike. What does AGM mean ??

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Re: Time to replace the battery

Post by mikep99 » Sun Nov 15, 2020 1:54 pm

https://www.racshop.co.uk/advice/what-is-an-agm-battery
Basically, the technology used for stop start batteries.
You would also need a charger thats AGM compatible if you went down that route.

I think I had a Varta I1 in previously which is a standard, non stop start battery.

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Re: Time to replace the battery

Post by Adymars » Sun Nov 15, 2020 2:02 pm



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