Halfords or RAC for fitting car battery at home?

wazza2004

Have a 2018 hyundai i20 1.0 auto with a dead battery.  Thinking of using either RAC or halfords mobile service to come to my location and fit the battery.  It will cost the same no matter who i go with.  Not sure what brand battery RAC will use but they offer a 3 year guarantee.  Halfords have their own brand or yusua both with 5 year guarantee. 
Not sure if the car needs to be coded to the new battery. If the car was older or didn't need coding  then I would have done it myself. 

Who shall I go for? RAC are more likely to be experienced mechanics but don't know about halfords.

Mildly_Miffed

wazza2004 said:

Not sure if the car needs to be coded to the new battery. If the car was older or didn't need coding  then I would have done it myself. 

I'd be very surprised if it did need coding in.

Does the car have stop-start and an AGM battery, or just a normal wet lead?

chrisw

It doesn't need coding or registering. Replacement is a simple job to do yourself, replacing like for like.

fatbelly

wazza2004 said:

Not sure if the car needs to be coded to the new battery.

If the car was older or didn't need coding  then I would have done it myself. 

That is the moneysaving option

https://www.tayna.co.uk/

Ectophile

The last RAC battery I had was an RAC-branded Yuasa.  Getting a battery off the RAC at the side of the road cost a lot more than it would have done if I had been in a position to pop down the local motor factors.

carly

Do you have time to have one delivered to your home from an online battery company?  It's a very simple job to swap a new one in and will be far more cost effective.  I would be amazed if it needed coding, my last Hyundai didnt although it was not an  i20.  

SiliconChip

Why start 2 threads on exactly the same subject 10 minutes apart?

wazza2004

Mildly_Miffed said:

wazza2004 said:

Not sure if the car needs to be coded to the new battery. If the car was older or didn't need coding  then I would have done it myself. 

I'd be very surprised if it did need coding in.

Does the car have stop-start and an AGM battery, or just a normal wet lead?

It has a stop start and agm battery

wazza2004

SiliconChip said:

Why start 2 threads on exactly the same subject 10 minutes apart?

One was asking why it won't start when there was a charge on the battery and this one is asking where to get a replacement battery from

RandomTourist

I had good experience with RAC. Halfords couldn't or wouldn't help as we are some way from their base. RAC were cautious as I just wanted battery replaced before it failed, wanted to check that I was making a sensible decision and not just guessing wildly. Price - can't remember but not extortionate.

Warning: this is just one person's experience. "The plural of anecdote is not data."

EssexExile

Halfords had great trouble replacing the battery in my dad's Micra at their base, I suspect they'd be even worse away from it.