Thread: Great battery

I don't know about Cat batteries but having dealt with quite a lot of their products Im not surprised.

I've had Delcor Calcium batteries in my 300Tdi Disco for 4 years and they were in my mates truck for 5 years before that and they are still going strong after about 80,000 kms of all sorts of battering in my Disco and god knows what they put up with in the truck.

We only changed them in the truck because we had an electrical problem which drained them and being a 24v set up we couldn't get it to jump start and he needed to move it, his call, chuck 2 new batteries in.

I chucked them on the charger and put them in Casper where they have been ever since.

My alternator is set up to charge at 14.5 volts though (as most euro cars normally are) which works well for Calcium batteries so if doing the same keep that in mind as it may have some bearing on their life.

Cheers Casper

Haha I went to JB HiFi today to buy a car stereo for my wife's car and next to all the "fully sick" head units and sub woofers they had a stack of Optima yellow top batteries...they must flog them to car audio nuts so they can run their ute trays full of speakers for longer.

I really don't understand that whole scene