General battery prices

[hensteeth]

I thought id inquire about a price for a battery for my Colour
I think the garage is trying it on as I got quoted £85 fitted ha!ha!
I was looking at change from £40 what is the going rate to pay these days?
I have'nt bought a battery for a few years - last 1 I got was a heavy duty one for a german car and even it was'nt that price and it was a Bosch I think.

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

I paid about £50 for the biggest and best battery I could get for the 750L. It was a top of the range Bosh Battery (A Bosh Silver I think). And that was fully fitted (not that its hard in a Panda, lol).

£80 is very much taking the P!

Jon.

 

[dave]

i got one the other day
380 cold cranking
45 Ampere-hour @ 20 hour rate (ah)
thats more tan enough for any panda it had gone up from £25 to £30 in last few months because price of lead has gone up.

you don't need to have one fitted its easy job to diy, just go motor factors and get one

 

[firstcar-Y10]

got one last year when i nearly got round to putting the car back on the road (then didn't).That was only about 40 quid, and that was just from Halfords. Of course it was only after I got it that I realised it wasn't the battery at fault at all, my charger had packed up Still got the old one if you're anywhere near Glasgow. If not, probably cheaper buying eh.

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

Of course it was only after I got it that I realised it wasn't the battery at fault at all, my charger had packed up Still got the old one if you're anywhere near Glasgow. If not, probably cheaper buying eh.

I done the same with the 750L, got a new batt due to starting problems, to find it sorted it for about 2 weeks and then started doing the same. It turned out the points and HT leads needed doing in the end :doh:

Jon.

 

[Alan.D]

Paid £18 from the local motor factor, but as Dave has said everything is going up in price (f**king government):tosser:

 

[hensteeth]

Thats encouraging Alan £18 I like the sound of that m8- I wish the price of our wages were going up ha!ha!
Going to phone around a few motor factors on Monday plenty of them up here
so competition for business means competitive prices I hope.

 

[dave]

the one i got is really for a punto sporting speedgear, but it fits panda exackly, and with all that extra power you can listen to sounds for ages with out the engine running

 

[Alan.D]

What you mean with the ign on and the coil burning out?

 

[dave]

What you mean with the ign on and the coil burning out?

dont need ignition on if you wired you sounds in right

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

dont need ignition on if you wired you sounds in right

:yeahthat: If wired in properly using the Fiat wiring for the origional tape/radio then the feed is a constant live without interference from the ign

 

[Alan.D]

dont need ignition on if you wired you sounds in right

Ah! but see that's where your wrong mate. If you wire it in correctly it should switch off with the ignition. But I suppose that's if you have an updated HU that needs the memory +ve and permanant +ve and not one of those old push button ones that turns off with a knob....

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

Ah! but see that's where your wrong mate. If you wire it in correctly it should switch off with the ignition. But I suppose that's if you have an updated HU that needs the memory +ve and permanant +ve and not one of those old push button ones that turns off with a knob....
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Lol. I just connect the memory and ign +ve together so they're both constantly connected, and then make sure I haven't got one of those units which drains the batt flat if not turned off at ign +ve feed

 

[Alan.D]

BUT if you do that it never turns off properly......BODGE cowboy job that

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

BODGE cowboy job that

:tempt:Story of my life

 

[Alan.D]

If you think the Panda is tough you should try wiring a full Ice system into a 7 series



After


Set up was a 7" motorised Veba monitor & radio, Veba 6 DVD changer, Alpine GPS (sat-nav) unit, Freeview DVB T tv, recordable VCR wired via a reverse camera so you could video your drive (all units with remote) Trafficmaster & monitor screen, photochromatic diping rear view mirror with outside temp etc.........

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

Is that the BMW you've still got

Sounds like it was a bit of work, but well worth it in the end

 

[Alan.D]

Was sold last Nov just after the Barchetta

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

Was sold last Nov just after the Barchetta

Y?

Hang on, what car's you got now?

I thought you had one BMW (sold one), 2 mk2's and the Barchetta and a mk3?

 

[Alan.D]

Na everything is gone other than the Mk3 the Italia 90 and Willie that was sold as well for £1600 but due to the gearbox f**k up needs to be sorted which could take some time. It's already been 6 mths