adrian hollister

Active Member

• Oct 20, 2010

• #1

My battery in my Disco 300TDI is just not holding charge so it's time for a replacement. I have a LR branded new battery (I think it's from a new range rover) given to me, but its massive in size and won't fit in the existing battery location.

So the question: is there an alternative battery location that I can use for a much larger battery or am I better off getting another battery that's the right size?

 

Pikey

Dummy Ejection Facilitator..

• Oct 20, 2010

• #2

adrian hollister said:

My battery in my Disco 300TDI is just not holding charge so it's time for a replacement. I have a LR branded new battery (I think it's from a new range rover) given to me, but its massive in size and won't fit in the existing battery location.

So the question: is there an alternative battery location that I can use for a much larger battery or am I better off getting another battery that's the right size?

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No and yes

 

adrian hollister

Active Member

• Oct 20, 2010

• #3

Darn and darn. Better kick the moths out of the wallet.

 

discool

Well-Known Member

• Oct 21, 2010

• #4

278mm x 175mm x 190mm is the size of my battery and it just fits. I had to tilt it and slide it in, it was purchased two months ago from Performance Batteries around £64 with 660 cca. Excellent.

 

adymanchester

Banned

• Oct 21, 2010

• #5

Many years ago i had a mate who had a escort van ,he was always a skinflint and one day his battery failed ,so rather than spend money on a new one suitable for the escort ,he bought a huge battery off a guy in the pub for cheap money and put it in the back of the escort van ,he then modified his jump leads and hey presto the van started fine ,he ran it like that for years until he sold it on for scrap.