Old Halfords Car Battery - Guess the age?

kona786 · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:04

Just took this out of my new car as felt like it was starting to struggle when starting. Replaced with a new unit.

This battery looks properly old (7yrs?) - I know Halfords batteries now have a different label design (orange) and I think it's been like this for atleast 5 years.

Does anyone remember seeing this old design and want to guess the age?

Current-ish Halford design - here

d_brennen · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:08

4 year warranty so I'd guess it's 4 years and 3 days old

Housey · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:09

123bc?

bledd · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:16

Must be pretty old, I don't remember the logo being anything other than black and amber

kona786 · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:19

d_brennen said:
4 year warranty so I'd guess it's 4 years and 3 days old

Housey said:
123bc?

I see the clowns are out in force - day off or just out of work?

bledd. said:
Must be pretty old, I don't remember the logo being anything other than black and amber

Yeah that logo is ancient - worked well past it's expected life so props to Halfords for a quality battery. Made by Yuasa.

ecksmen · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:20

Internet archive has that logo for halfords.com in 2001. It's gone by 2006. I'm not looking any more, my sadness has boundaries (although they dwindle).

Armageus · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:23

circa 1997?

Orionaut · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:32

d_brennen said:
4 year warranty so I'd guess it's 4 years and 3 days old

I "Think" Halfords use Yausa these days. In which case (Assuming you are not Boeing) they should actually be pretty good!

Having said that, sometimes there is a trade off between life and cost effectiveness (Incandescent lightbulbs for instance) establishing the optimum point and ensuring that the product reliably achieves it within a narrow window is not necessarily a bad thing!

Housey · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:36

kona786 said:
I see the clowns are out in force - day off or just out of work?

Benefits for 27 years mate

teenwolf · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:37

6 years old

kona786 · 28 Feb 2013 at 22:00

ecksmen said:
Internet archive has that logo for halfords.com in 2001. It's gone by 2006. I'm not looking any more, my sadness has boundaries (although they dwindle).

2006 sounds about right to me - good researching :cool:

Matt82 · 28 Feb 2013 at 23:47

I had a gsf own brand in the old golf that was working, at 8-9 years old

randal · 28 Feb 2013 at 23:51

Quick search reveals that logo hasn't been used since 2002. Give a year (being generous) for old stock sales... around a decade, maybe 12 years old.

Dave L · 2 Mar 2013 at 07:44

That's very good - but then I would expect that from a Yuasa battery.

andrewdodd13 · 2 Mar 2013 at 09:15

To be honest, as a youngster I don't see this as particularly long. All the battery changes I've seen have been on cars which are approaching 9-10 years old; my Starlet's battery was 11 years; grandad's Rover 75 was 9 years; dad's Vectra is pushing 8 years and 170k miles and is still on its first as well!

Maybe they've improved the lifespan over the years?

Sone · 2 Mar 2013 at 09:27

yeah, batterys i have replaced have always been around 10ys. Modern cars seem to start so much easier assume not stressed anywhere near as much (old cars seem to turn over quite a few times, especially in cold)

d_brennen · 2 Mar 2013 at 09:30

The battery in our 206 is easily 12 years old, still starts first time every time, though the car has ~70k miles

Dogbreath · 2 Mar 2013 at 11:04

All batteries have a date code on them somewhere

kona786 · 2 Mar 2013 at 18:39

Hmm the more I think about it it's deffo older than 2006.

Circa 2001 sounds more like it so 10years+ out of battery is ace.

My new Bosch 4yr should last a while.

Cheers for all the input.