New car battery

Hintza

Wig wrote: »

Scrap yard £10 - £15

Where have you been, I took two small (smaller tha normal car batteries) to the scrappy and got £8 each!!

goldspanners

Hintza wrote: »

Where have you been, I took two small (smaller tha normal car batteries) to the scrappy and got £8 each!!

what scrappys are you using? the one im using is giving me about £6 for a small battery and £8 for a large one. weighing them in for scrap im assuming.

i think wig is buying one from a car breaker type of scrappy rather than a scrap metal merchant.

Evilm

Has anyone said "don't trust Kwik Fit"?

mikey72

Flying-High wrote: »

You need a VX trade club account!! Same Battery on Trade club comes in at £57 with the VAT.

Halfords:rotfl::rotfl:

ECPS do Lion batteries own brand IRC.... Cheap enough and have a guarantee. Google Lion batteries.. and guarantee etc is explained.

I have.
All our cars have vauxhall batteries.
Retail price is still good though, for a battery with a three year warranty, throughout the uk (although I've never tried it, the oe one was on for six years, and was only just getting a bit slow in the morning)

garcon6

ATS about £60 3 yr warranty

forgotmyname

Bought a Lion battery from eurocarparts the other day, Giving it a boost before i fit it.

3 year warranty same as the other brands, If it lasts 3 years and a day it will probably still be
value for money compared to the much dearer bosch/exide? brands.

Only £50inc vat for a 100 71Ah mondeo diesel battery.

worried_jim

Thanks for the tips everyone. There is a dismantlers near me that I may pop into other wise I have found a Lion battery seller 2.5 miles away and can get one new for £61.04.

Inactive

worried_jim wrote: »

Thanks for the tips everyone. There is a dismantlers near me that I may pop into other wise I have found a Lion battery seller 2.5 miles away and can get one new for £61.04.

They will be doing a roaring trade..;)

forgotmyname

Inactive wrote: »

They will be doing a roaring trade..;)

Had to read that twice before it clicked...:T

The battery with BITE.

Never seen so many batteries sold in such a short time. I didnt even need to replace mine but thought i may as well replace it, Dont want to risk a dead battery over xmas and have to pay ripoff prices.

worried_jim

forgotmyname wrote: »

Had to read that twice before it clicked...:T

The battery with BITE.

Never seen so many batteries sold in such a short time. I didnt even need to replace mine but thought i may as well replace it, Dont want to risk a dead battery over xmas and have to pay ripoff prices.

How much did you pay and where did you get it from ?