That awfully clever car battery charger is on offer again this Thursday for 12.99. It's just about small enough to fit in a pocket but punches well above its weight. About 4 amps output. Does pulse charging to try and recover a badly discharged battery. Goes to maintenance mode after charging. Similar costs over 40 quid elsewhere.
The max output seems low on paper but in practice it charges a battery fully as fast as many of over twice the nominal output.
I missed those the last time. Thanks for heads up.
Found it
And I think I know what else I'm getting for Christmas
You might have to get there early for one of those. This sort of thing sometimes has limited supplies.
Heh. If I hadn't just bought 2 of similar spec from Argos for £25 each I'd be up for one too! (Only downside of the Aggros one is that the SD card slot is conveniently placed behind the fold-down fascia ... right behind the hinge-line, so you have to _remove_ the fascia to change the card!
Oh and the Argos one doesn't have a remote ... which is a plus IMO :-)
This might be an alternative - don't know if it's any good though
The Sony one I put in my van 18 months ago won't mute ot change station now. Don't spose they make anything that simple now.
Try an auto scrapyard. I bought one a couple of months back (for replacement dials) only cost a couple of quid.
Don.
Problem is the vast majority are made for new cars and few would want one without those. So due to economies of scale a radio only might just cost more.
Participating Blaupunkt dealers used to offer a supply of refurbished versions of earlier ICE units. I don't know if they still do them, but about 3 years ago I obtained a simple Blaupunkt AM/FM radio with a six month warranty for about £35. Reception was excellent.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Plowman (News)" saying something like:
Ooh, ta for that.
Ford ones are good - I've got one in my Tranny and it does the RDS (or whatever it's called) thing properly - we're in a crap FM reception area with 2 or 3 different frequencies which you've got to jump between when driving about, and it just does it seamlessly. I think it's got a cassette player but I don't bother with that. (The radio I bought with the USB MP3 player is part of my portable for work when I've got a long relatively boring job in one place where I'd like to be able to play my own music from a memory stick when there's nothing good on the radio. There's also one in the family car for long journeys.)
Popped into the Luton Lidl on the way past Luton this morning. Only had two left with packaging and instructions separated. Good news is they were reduced to £5.99, so I bought them. (I don't think the reduction was related to the opened boxes.)
Real bargain then - hope you bought them both. ;-) The instructions are available online.
Without the instructions the only thing that might confuse is the motor bike emblem refers to the lower charge rate rather than 6 volts.
In message , Andrew Gabriel writes
Send me one, I'll send you a tenner ...
Looks like there are about 3 Lidl's quite close to Watford.
Still a couple of dozen chargers left in one of the Leicester ones.
Probably about a dozen in the Camberley store today. Still at 12.99.
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