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What's the latest on the best battery brand? The two cheapies in my car finally failed, and wouldn't start the car today.

They are on a conditioner, and I at least had 14 years life out of batteries for which I paid GBP 35 each. Not bad value.

I understand the Bosch batteries made in Spain have a higher failure rate than previous Bosch batteries.

Yuasa has a 52 amp equivalant.

Comments please?

I can't make any specific recommendations - but I salute your getting your money's worth out of those batteries

Bravo sir!

g3ngs2 wrote:I can't make any specific recommendations - but I salute your getting your money's worth out of those batteries

Bravo sir!

The battery conditioner was what made the batteries live, I had a 4 yr battery on my daily driver, a Merc C220 diesel and it lived 4 yrs and then good bye.

Just an update, I went out and put 20 miles on the car. Voltage dropped to 8.9V, cranked slowly but it fired. Thankfully I had installed one of the hot CD boxes a few years ago. After about 45 minutes of running, one of the batteries didn't charge very well, and it cranked slowly on the drive but started. Needs new batteries.