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Best Battery?

Postby kerrymaxwell » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:08 pm

Hi, my car battery is dead and I'm just wondering if anyone can recommend what type of battery I should replace it with? Hope someone can help :D
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Re: Best Battery?

Postby colm_mcm » Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:09 pm

The biggest one that will fit :-)
I put a huge one for a Lexus into my first one.
The standard one is a joke.
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Re: Best Battery?

Postby Kace » Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:44 pm

colm_mcm wrote:The biggest one that will fit :-)
I put a huge one for a Lexus into my first one.
The standard one is a joke.


A joke maybe but the small battery that it comes with works plenty fine - even through all of the weather we had over the past 2 years. I've replaced my 'Micra' battery once in the past 12 years of driving my FTO.

I've even had that tiny battery run an uprated stereo, amp, speakers and 2 x 10" subwoofers without an issue.

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Re: Best Battery?

Postby Dragonheart » Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:15 pm

I upgraded mine, it went dead while I was away in NZ and no matter how many times I left it to charge overnight, it wouldn't retain its charge. So I put in a bigger one, just make sure the lugs will fit as the Jap lugs are different to European.
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