Need a new car battery, any suggestions?

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I have a VW Golf MkIV 2.0 GTi. I've previously used Halfords own brand but looking there today and some other places I keep finding the Yuasa brand battery.

Yuasa model no# YBX5027 is recommended and the most expensive, £105 at Halfords but I'm reading they price match and I've seen £82 from a Google search.
 
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Jesus wept. So Halfords have custom part numbers on batteries, in the reviews for the battery someone got price matched. So I get on chat to sort out a price match and the bloke says no as the link I provided has a different part number, I say of course it does Halfords have custom numbers and he confirmed that they do, so then I'm asking how do they expect anyone to price match their batteries and he says they can't, so I tell him about the review where someone got price matched and he says that shouldn't have happened and copypasta their policy and insists the battery I offered is the not the same.

That's like saying my Golf is not the same as yours because it's black and yours is blue. It's one of those moments you want to reach through the screen and strangle the idiot.
 
Yeah there is an Andrew Page the road from my work already cheaper than Halfords and there's a good local indy shop in town I've used a few times to get bulbs and wiper blades, not actually looked their yet.
 
If your going to be spending hundred quid or so get a bosch s4 ive got to do mine at somepoint soon as its getting sluggish on cold mornings but the old ones lasted 6 years without a hickup.
 
Build your own liFePo4 battery, few 18650 cells, some copper bar and a cheapo charge regulator circuit. Save 15kg, last longer and holds more charge if you forget to turn your lights off!
 
Halford's prices for batteries is just painful. Got my last one from thebatteryguys, cheaper and a better fit plus a decent cashback rate at the time.

Eurocarparts also usually have codes available.
 
Funnily enough I just bought a replacement battery for the M5 from Halfords, a Yuasa. Nowhere else could get as, erm, differently expensive as Halfords for a known brand with decent warranty (5 years). Didn't help that I needed it quickly, but Halfords beat all the online places I checked, as well as the local factors and ECP etc. Then again, it's a very big battery (020 size, so 110Ah and 920CCA). Prices ranged from £145 (paid at Halfords) to almost £200 at ECP even with the discount code.
 
stuman said:
Build your own liFePo4 battery, few 18650 cells, some copper bar and a cheapo charge regulator circuit. Save 15kg, last longer and holds more charge if you forget to turn your lights off!
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For the kind of currents involved in a car battery you definitely don't want a cheapo power management and/or charge regulator* and with a cluster of 18650 batteries you definitely want to be paying attention to the current drawn from them or bad things will happen. If you are really determined to do it 26650 batteries are a better option.


* Though the cheap TP4056 based boards with protection circuit will work fine for charging the batteries individually or in matched groups they aren't really ideal for dealing with the kind of output currents you would likely have to deal with.
 
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Marvin said:
but Halfords beat all the online places I checked,
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I have used the Halfords price matching - against shops in the vicinity, I don't remember if they do online too
... but last battery was ECP , after waiting for the periodic best deals/vouchers
 
I bought my Civic battery straight from Honda (well, Cox Motor Parts). Was cheaper than anywhere else. £60 instead of £75-95 elsewhere.
 
jpaul said:
I have used the Halfords price matching - against shops in the vicinity, I don't remember if they do online too
... but last battery was ECP , after waiting for the periodic best deals/vouchers
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This was without price matching - their price was simply the least expensive of anywhere I checked.
 
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