Best place to buy a car battery?

[E30BeemerLad]

I need a new battery for the E30.

It came with a bosch silver top, but that is on the soarer as the battery gave up on that over the winter.

I priced up a battery for the soarer, after being advised to use a pre-2000 diesel transit battery and nearly everywhere wanted £90+ FFS.

I'm not bothered about being mugged and paying for the damn thing twice for a 3 year warranty, but what have you paid for a battery for say a 325 and where from?

[badassyas]

i bought a battery for my 325i. a while back now. it was some bad ass heavy duty one out of a sprinter i think. bosch silver from ECP. one sec lemme check my boot... code on it is a 1AN. trust me that battery would restart the universe!

[d6dph]

Batteries went through a series of price hikes over the last year Lee, No such thing as a cheap battery these days from my experience.

I seem to remember Brian recommending going to the dealer to buy them as the price is not too bad.

[blackcountrybimmerman]

Get one from Halfrauds mate.

OK, you may pay over the odds slightly, but they are good batteries....

If you've got a trade card for them they are quite reasonable TBH...

I paid £56 for a battery for my Fiesta Zetec-S about 12 months ago....

[E30Mark]

Halfords As Dave said, battery from the dealer would be cheaper!

Few years ago i bought a HUGE battery for the E36 M3 from the dealer, it was only £75 i seem to remember , pleasantly surprised.

[StuBeeDoo]

I need a new battery for the E30.

It came with a bosch silver top, but that is on the soarer as the battery gave up on that over the winter.

I priced up a battery for the soarer, after being advised to use a pre-2000 diesel transit battery and nearly everywhere wanted £90+ FFS.

I'm not bothered about being mugged and paying for the damn thing twice for a 3 year warranty, but what have you paid for a battery for say a 325 and where from?

3 weeks ago, Bosch silver, 325i spec. £46inc VAT. Andrew Page's.

[paulmitchell1984]

i bought on in feb for mine got the 3 year warrenty on it, its an energizer thingy cant remember what ampage it was but he looked it up in book and that was about £90

[Boyraceruk]

I had to buy a new battery a month ago, £60 fitted from the Varta shop here in Sheffield. SYBS I think their name is. Top blokes.

Also, I left my lights on for five or six hours before my neighbour came round to tell me, started first time the next morning.

[TopSod]

I got my mechanic to get me mine, all I know is its huge and it was £70, he gets me everything at trade price. The one that was in it already when it died, for some strange reason, was out of a old school mini

When I had vans I used to get the heavy duty ones from the tire garages, never let me down once.

[rossmc88]

Halfords if you've got a trade card or can get access to one, cost me £25 to get one for my mum's ford KA

[TopSod]

Thing to remember is if your battery is still in the boot it has about 14ft of cable to travel down first to start your engine

[mhuk]

£50 from ebay to my door. I brought two of these! Note they are not labeled as E30 batterys.

There for a later BMW diesel and are great. Good make too (Numax).

PM me and i'll send you the link when I get home tonight (no ebay at work) or failing that look at my ebay feedback martinholmesuk and see the link!

[mhuk]

Mines a 325i with battery in the boot ! Battery fits just fine

[Morat]

I've got an Exide 70A/H jobby from the wife's E46 in mine - fits nicely on the battery tray under the bonnet if you've still got room with the M50 under there!

[Blitz]

Check your local scrap yard as they do batteries for about 10 to 20 quid.

[E30BeemerLad]

I need a new battery for the E30.

It came with a bosch silver top, but that is on the soarer as the battery gave up on that over the winter.

I priced up a battery for the soarer, after being advised to use a pre-2000 diesel transit battery and nearly everywhere wanted £90+ FFS.

I'm not bothered about being mugged and paying for the damn thing twice for a 3 year warranty, but what have you paid for a battery for say a 325 and where from?

3 weeks ago, Bosch silver, 325i spec. £46inc VAT. Andrew Page's.

That's more like it, we have an Andrew Page here in York so I'll give them a try, cheers Stu

[George]

Always found ECP to be competitive with respect to battery pricing.

[jaistanley]

I work for Unipart and get stuff at cost + 10% and the 325i battery came out at around the same price as a Bosch silver top from ECP! I'd go there and get a price for a Bosch.

Jai

[Jon_Bmw]

This isn't a joke, but Vauxhall Go batteries used to be competitive on Trade club. They can find you out a battery from dimensions, but they should also be able to find out from the car it is in, even non GM. Worth a call perhaps?

[Motorhole]

Just got a battery for my 318i.

Halfords wanted £94.
BMW wanted £85.

Got a Quantum battery (VAG make) from my local German motor factors for £51.

[cecotto479]

I can do E30 in all variants new with three year warranty for £45 collected. Bosch at £57.50.

[capri_rob]

I shopped around for ages when we had the snow earlier this year when the battery in my daily gave up - ECP were the cheapest with a decent ( 3 Year Warranty ) - about £60 IIRC for a big battery ( my daily was a diesel Audi A4 ).

I tried Halfords but they wanted around £100 for the same size battery with the same warranty. Main dealers well over £100

[Alex]

ones from the main dealers may be expensive but the one on my mums comapact lasted 10 years, ive also heard others saying they lasted longer

[E30BeemerLad]

ECP are the best at £35, but they won't do mail order and that means a trip to Leeds and back, which is about 60 miles / £ 15 in the Soarer.

Local motor factors are coming in around the £60 mark by the time VAT is added etc

[Barx325i]

scrapyard clearly!

[dickster]

I've always rated Varta, avoid Numax like the plague they are truely shit and I speak as someone who used to work for a garage selling them.

Motrio batteries are sold by Renault garages, Motrio is Renault's non-Renault side of things so they do parts for lots of other makes, they are cheap, reliable and in the three years I worked for Renault we only had a handfull returned under warranty. If you know someone in the trade they will get Motrio batteries cheaper or you could pick a large garage and say you work there-they'll never know. They also do a Trade Club price which is dirt cheap but not sure how a non-trade customer would get that, unless you can blag your arse off.

[kam325itouring]

Halfords with trade card is the best i reckon, i got mine for £55 with my discount when originally it was 100 plus they have a 3 or 4 year warranty no questions asked!!!!

[richy187]

+1 For Halfrauds, but only with atrade card, they are very expensive without, but you do seem to get a massive discount on them on trade

[romario]

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