mk2 turbo - flat battery - heavy duty options?

[raptor95GTS]

I only use the car at weekends so it sits for a week with alarm on. Did some digging and folks on here were talking about Calcium batteries being better for cars left standing for a bit.

Choices are the Halfords Calcium Battery HCB005 which is 95quid 10quid more than the Lead Acid one, anyone here have any experience of them?

I know eurocarparts have Exide Battery (Premium Battery 005 4 Year Guarantee) at 78quid or the Bosch Battery (S4 Battery 005 4 Year Guarantee) 65quid so do I just get the Bosch one and save my 30quid?

[T.F.S.]

I have a nearly new Halfords calcium one for sale if you are interested, I can do it for £75 delivered, it only just fits in the hole and is the largest you can get in there!

[cosmos]

Bosche Silver 005 calcium technology here, might need to mod/pack the clamp, halfords own calcium battery looked taller from memory. Try CAS Central Auto Services perhaps for price, or yes 4year warranty at Halfords (discount card?).

ATB Rob.

[raptor95GTS]

I have a nearly new Halfords calcium one for sale if you are interested, I can do it for £75 delivered, it only just fits in the hole and is the largest you can get in there!

thanks but I'd rather have a new battery from source for the warranty side of things. these things dont normally transfer to another person but thanks for the offer.

[T.F.S.]

I have a nearly new Halfords calcium one for sale if you are interested, I can do it for £75 delivered, it only just fits in the hole and is the largest you can get in there!

thanks but I'd rather have a new battery from source for the warranty side of things. these things dont normally transfer to another person but thanks for the offer.

I paid cash, warrenty is transferable.

[shinny]

Choices are the Halfords Calcium Battery HCB005 which is 95quid 10quid more than the Lead Acid one, anyone here have any experience of them?

I installed one of those when I needed a new battery... lasted about 3 years before getting replaced under warranty about 10 months ago and the replacement is not holding charge even for 24hrs at the moment

[Krish]

I bought a Bosch S4 battery when I had the turbo conversion done. Car sat for 3 months and battery died, just got a replacement one under warranty no questions asked.

Here's the place I got it from on ebay. They have a discount on at the moment - £63.59 delivered!

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HTH

[Kongaroo]

The Halfords calcium batteries work well and they do honour the warranty - you just take it back if it fails with the receipt and pick another up once they've tested it.

It's one reason I still buy some car stuff from there. Although it's generally not the cheapest place to pick things up, there is a lot to be said for the convenience of being able to drive there directly

[raptor95GTS]

haha, yes Halfords are pretty good for that except of course when you can't actually get the car started to drive there! Don't have jump leads and due to the stupid parking setup where I stay, cannot get access to parking bay next to mine to set up jump leads to another car. Gotta love on street parking

[shinny]

The Halfords calcium batteries work well and they do honour the warranty - you just take it back if it fails with the receipt and pick another up once they've tested it.

I lost the receipt for mine, so they were through the system and found my original payment and still honoured the warranty.

[Racer7]

Anyone used this battery or this company?

http://thebatteryshop.co.uk/yuasa-12v-6 ... 8558-p.asp

I have used the bosch silver one reffered to and can't say for sure whether it was the age of the battery or my car alarm sucking the life out of it. Either way I wasn't able to leave my car for more than a few weeks without it draining.

As such I'm looking at the Yuasa (which I had a cheapie in the car when I bought it and thought it was crap...). I've read comments that this is a good reliable brand. Presumably being a silver and with a higher Amp nd CCA rating than required that should mean I'm covered for long periods of non-use and cold, cold day starts?

Going to get this for my Civic as well from this place as Halfrauds want's £90 for it whereas this place is £55 (+£10 del).

Opinions?

BTW, I'm basing my view of increasing the power rating on a few responses from TonyLeFrong on threads over on the OC. Since he's MR2 through and through I take his knowledge on board.

[Peter Gidden]

http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic. ... 29#1534829

[cosmos]

Bosche silver S5, Bosche blue S4, Yuasa silver looks good, and a most important consideration particularly an MR2 battery is the lifting handle!. Halfords twin flexi handles not great for battery extraction!

[madbasshunter]

The Halfords calcium batteries work well and they do honour the warranty - you just take it back if it fails with the receipt and pick another up once they've tested it.

I lost the receipt for mine, so they were through the system and found my original payment and still honoured the warranty.

Basically if it is a Halford's battery and its faulty it will be replaced without a receipt.

[shinny]

The Halfords calcium batteries work well and they do honour the warranty - you just take it back if it fails with the receipt and pick another up once they've tested it.

I lost the receipt for mine, so they were through the system and found my original payment and still honoured the warranty.

Basically if it is a Halford's battery and its faulty it will be replaced without a receipt.

Not so simple... I needed to show which store I bought it from and when so they could find me on the system.

I actually had it replaced a second time in December. So I'm not convinced by the quality of their batteries but at least I've now had three of them!

[JD]

I can do it for £75 delivered, it only just fits in the hole and is the largest you can get in there!

*snigger*

[T.F.S.]

[MR2 Rich]

I've got a Toyota one in mine and doesn't get used for a week or 2 at a time and always starts straight away. Think it was about 60 quid from my local dealer.

[abovetherim]

I got a bosch blue top on mine and I can leave for 3 weeks with alarm on and she'll start right

[synXero]

I've got a Toyota one in mine and doesn't get used for a week or 2 at a time and always starts straight away. Think it was about 60 quid from my local dealer.

Always had Toyota, never had a flat.