Decent brand batteries

[Midnightclub]

Not for the 306 but it's fairly irrelevant, what brands of batteries are we saying are decent these days? Heard differing opinions recently

[bashbarnard]

Bosch \thread

[Midnightclub]

See, I'd always assumed Bosch is decent for basically everything. But swear someone on here recently said their battery was shit, maybe it was a specific model I'm thinking of?

[Eeyore]

Not the bosch S5 silverline... it has a warranty but mine only lasted a year.

[Midnightclub]

This is what I'm thinking, cba swapping out batteries every 12 months and sending it away.

[powerandtorque]

I've had no end of issues with Bosch Silver batteries and wouldn't touch them with a barge pole, particularly on anything that wasn't in regular use. From what I can tell they seem fine on anything that's used regularly, but put them on anything that gets used more sporadically and allows the battery to partly discharge (or do something silly like leave the lights on so the battery goes flat) and the Bosch's just die and never recover the ability to take/hold charge.

Personally? I would just buy whatever comes with a decent warranty from a local supplier so that in the unlikely event it does fail you can easily get it swapped out.

That's what I used to do after the Bosch fiasco where I had three die on me within a few months, and I never had another failure even on no-names batteries. That said, for the last few years now I've been using a stockpile of batteries that I've removed from cars that I've broken and the only ones that have given me grief doing that have been - yep you've guessed it - Bosch Silvers....

[Midnightclub]

Well that's pretty much confirmed my thoughts, I'll more than likely get one from ECP as they're local so taking it back shouldn't be an issue if I need to and can get another 10% off atm.

From what I can see they offer Lion, Duracell and Bosch. Lion looks alright, 3 year warranty 78AH and 700CCA

[Toms306]

Niall will be along soon to tell you to only buy Yuasa and that Bosch are terrible.

I've used 2 Bosch S5s without issue but others dont seem to hve the same experience lol.

[Jonny81191]

Another vote against bosch, appalling lifetime and over priced. Ecp do exide which are better than the bosch for a lot less. Varta are another good brand. Lion are ok, but for a slight increase in price I'd have exide.

[Midnightclub]

I wanted exide but ECP don't seem to list one for my car

EDIT: scrap that, there was a page 2

[Frosty]

I've got bosch blue batteries in the estate and dt and i've not had any issue with them as of yet. We fit a lot of bosch batteries at work and dont seem to have any issue tbh

[Toms306]

I always forget ECP has extra pages as well lol, they need to make numbers more obvious!

[Midnightclub]

I always forget ECP has extra pages as well lol, they need to make numbers more obvious!

Yeah it was hardly obvious haha, although the first page is all there 'recommended' products read: most expensive lol

[Poodle]

Another vote here for exide, seem to be great for the money.

[Niall]

Exide or Yuasa for me. Would never touch Bosch with a barge pole now!

[Midnightclub]

Got an exide being delivered today, £63 posted.. not bad tbh! Cheers dudes

[RetroPug]

That's interesting, I've a bosch battery in my rarely used '6 that gets periods of little use with the occasional trickle charge and it's fine.

[maxzy]

Bosch & Panasonic They work fine although rarely use !