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Old Nov 17, 2017 | 06:43 PM
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as good as the name suggests or better sticking to an old favourite like bosch or lion?
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Old Nov 17, 2017 | 07:06 PM
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Not used Duracell. Lion are a budget range through euro car parts to my knowledge. Seen people slate Lion but the only one I've used was fine.
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Old Nov 17, 2017 | 07:12 PM
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I cant think of a bigger name in batteries than Duracell but I didn't know they did car batteries. with the 35% sale its down to £100.
https://www.eurocarparts.com/basket

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Old Nov 17, 2017 | 07:20 PM
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We use varta at work there really good batteries
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Old Nov 17, 2017 | 07:25 PM
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I have had 2 duracell battery's fail, since then have stuck with bosch silver s5
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Old Nov 17, 2017 | 07:30 PM
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oh dear that's not as good as id have expected !
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Old Nov 17, 2017 | 08:19 PM
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I always stick with Bosch. Although I didn't realise how much some car batteries are. The battery failed on my wife's 120d the other day so I had to get a new one. Told her it would be about £80. How wrong was I! Nearly fell over when the bloke in the shop said £172! The cheaper one was £150 but I still went for the Bosch. 4 year warranty with it as well.
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I always stick with Bosch. Although I didn't realise how much some car batteries are. The battery failed on my wife's 120d the other day so I had to get a new one. Told her it would be about £80. How wrong was I! Nearly fell over when the bloke in the shop said £172! The cheaper one was £150 but I still went for the Bosch. 4 year warranty with it as well.
Some of the batteries for cars with StopStart technology are mega bucks.
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Old Nov 17, 2017 | 08:50 PM
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Thank God her car hasn't got stop start then, and mine for that matter!
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Old Nov 18, 2017 | 03:05 PM
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Not used Duracel ones, but have got my last several batterys from here https://www.tayna.co.uk/

always been the best price for me, and turn up next day
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Old Nov 18, 2017 | 03:18 PM
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I've had 4 batteries out of Halfords the last 3 years for various cars and have all been great.
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Old Nov 19, 2017 | 07:06 AM
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Lion batteries are shit, I just replaced a dead one at work that was only fitted new back in May.
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Not had many dealings with Duracell car batteries but have with Lion batteries, they're shit imo.

I don't think much of Bosch batteries either but folk seem to like them because they're Bosch.

We use Yuasa batteries and they seem pretty good.
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Daf use varta there really good batteries. I’ve had 2 big ones on my van for jump starting for years now never re charged them
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We use varta battery’s at work and they seem really good and every varta battery we’ve replaced has been on the car for well over 5 years. We carry a Bosch battery too for the stop start stuff
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I’ve used yuasa and Duracell, yuasa in a A8 d3 that users a lot of juice and was fine, I had a Duracell in a mk3 Mondeo with smart charge and again that was fine too 👍
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