Car battery.

JOOI did you look at Tayna? I've been happy with their service & price but that's on a sample of 3 bog standard batteries over the years. They have a choice of 69 & 72.

I've been happy with their own-label 'powerline' batteries, my UPS is on its second set.

Yes - the same price including delivery as the Ebay one.

It happens that Dave Plowman (News) formulated :

Is it a Rover 75?

It will take a slightly taller and higher capacity battery than is usually suggested for the 75, this Varta Silver 77aH from Tanya will fit perfectly...

You must be new here. ;-)

Tim

I've had success with eBay (choosing firms with large numbers of sales). Last time I needed one in a hurry I went to the local "independent" parts shop, they checked the reg number and gave me a battery that I thought looked slightly too big, luckily I was in the car so checked straight away. They gave me another with the right dimensions at the top and later when I tried to fit it it turned out it would not fit in the tray because it was the type with overhangs at the bottom to engage with clamps.

Come to think of it, the time before the first battery they gave me had the opposite handedness, again after a computer check against reg number.

My mate in the trade reckons Euro Car Parts are usually OK.

Ta!

ECP are nice if you're in the trade because they will deliver same-day, which is handy when you've got the vehicle in bits on the lift and the customer is coming at 5 to collect. However the walk-up pricing is no longer much good unless you catch one of their 40% offers which turn up regularly. (if you're in the trade you probably get account pricing which is better)

However they have now spawned carparts4less.co.uk which appears to have the same stock and better pricing with free delivery, the only issue being you can't collect from a ECP branch.

Another place is ECP on ebay - I've bought things there which almost certainly cost more in postage than I paid for the whole item.

Theo

and you have the cheek to slag off my yank tank......

how many cows died for your leather seats ? ....

How will this new extended low emission zone in London affect these older vehicles? One assumes the charges are applied via apnpr, in which case I guess if you stuck a new or modified engine in that would not be recognised. Brian

How long will delivery take?

Problem is, when my car battery is diagnosed as failed, It's an emergency purchase at Halfords. Nothing else "delivers" faster.

A bit like all my trips to B&Q.

Couriers, "this way up" and lead acid batteries, sounds like a good recipe for burns & tears ...

Brian Gaff (Sofa) formulated on Sunday :

All they can know, is what it says on the registration for a vehicle, associated with the registration number. If you change the engine, colour, or layout of the vehicle, you are supposed to update the registration with the DVLA.

on 28/03/2021, Jim GM4DHJ ... supposed :

Leather is a by product, not the main product.

Adrian Caspersz formulated the question :

Any reputable supplier, will ensure they are capped, then sealed in an acid tight bag, then padded and boxed.

Tanya is amongst the best for safety, their batteries arrive vacuum sealed in a bag.

I bought a "dry charged" battery from Halfords once, with the acid in separate plastic bottles. Filled it up, fitted it, started the engine and went for a spin to refresh the charge. Job done.

Max Demian pretended :

They are (almost) all sealed these days, you cannot top them up.

Many motorcycle batteries still come like that, saves them 'going bad' on the shelf.

Whist you can typically do that (the 'charge' being pre set by the chemistry of the lead paste in the plates), it's recommended to at least leave them for a while, and / or bench charging them first (to reduce stratification).

Whilst that would 'work', it would still be best done the next day once the charge had equalised and the plates fully saturated.

Cheers, T i m

Strangely, motorcycle batteries and especially some brands, often (still) come dry charged and with a (joined) bank of bottles, each containing the right quantity of acid for the cell.

You remove the cover strip over the filling holes, invert the bank of bottles and press them down into the cells where their individual foil 'lids' are perorated by special spikes in the top of each cell and the cells slowly filled.

Once complete, you are supposed to leave the battery for some time till the initial excess gassing has reduced and most the bubbles dispersed. It is recommended (in the instructions) you apply a bench charge before finally fitting the sealing strip / cover (or individual cell caps (less often these days)) and fitting / using the battery.

In many cases the bike shop will do all this for you (especially if they are also fitting the battery) and they may be prohibited in selling the kits for d-i-y filling due to restrictions of the carrying of sulphuric acid in any case?

In the old days they would have a carboy of the right SG sulphuric acid for dry-charged batteries with a rubber hose and tap on the end and fill the batteries from that (and I have, many times over the years at my local bike shop). ;-)

Cheers, T i m