P38A Fixed- Battery going flat again

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Anyone recommend somewhere I might get the Hankook as they seem to be out of stock.
Tayna batteries where I got the Varta from want me to box it up and send it back to them for testing, not cheap given the weight and some couriers won't even accept it. So the warranty is not worth anything in reality.
 
Andy Burrell said:
Anyone recommend somewhere I might get the Hankook as they seem to be out of stock.
Tayna batteries where I got the Varta from want me to box it up and send it back to them for testing, not cheap given the weight and some couriers won't even accept it. So the warranty is not worth anything in reality.
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Is that thru the BMS website? They don't seem to carry big stock, seemed to be regularly in and out of stock.. try tomorrow etc
 
Andy Burrell said:
So this morning with my glamorous assistant did the voltage drop test on start.
Before the battery was connected it read 12.57 after four days disconnected. Connected up and neither starter motor or alternator causes the little spark you get when connecting. Something else does but its tiny.
Once connected the volts drop to 12.30 and on start up drops momentarily to 9.4v and then back up to alternator voltage of 14.5v. After that it is sitting at 12.4 v.
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So the battery was to all intents and purposes flat when you refitted it. Th battery is fecked.
6 months disconnected and my MF31-1000 was still showing 12.7 volts.
 
Andy Burrell said:
Anyone recommend somewhere I might get the Hankook as they seem to be out of stock.
Tayna batteries where I got the Varta from want me to box it up and send it back to them for testing, not cheap given the weight and some couriers won't even accept it. So the warranty is not worth anything in reality.
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Battery Megastore on line
 
Andy Burrell said:
Tayna batteries where I got the Varta from want me to box it up and send it back to them for testing, not cheap given the weight and some couriers won't even accept it. So the warranty is not worth anything in reality.
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This situation has always concerned me, that's why I buy locally in case of a duff one. The last battery I bought was from ECP, ordered on-line to secure a good discount & collected by myself from the store that's only 5 miles away; that way I can always take it back.
 
Datatek said:
My first MF31 lasted 8 years until a duff alternator took it out.
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I've just checked my posts and I bought my Hancook battery 2 and a half years ago. I've kept it maintained all that time and it used to spin the engine over rapidly, I've noticed in the last few weeks that it's just not turning the engine over as well as it used to. Could this be the alternator? I've had problems with the RR batteries since I bought it. Is it an easy job for an auto electrician to test it in situ?
 
Could be a lagging starter also.
After swimming and changing the alt and the starter :mad: it spins over like a top. In addition to the mf31-1000. :cool:
 
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