Thread: Whats a good battery?

I'm using a calcium battery in mine. Are they good? Dunno. I've had the car 6 years and am on my second replacement battery. (The original battery was replaced a few months after buying the car.)

Re the size and brand, I'll have to pull the battery cover off to find out. The first was a Delkor, this one was from the same supplier but I think it has a different brand name.

Hi Ron - thanks but don't go to any trouble - the dealer has just fitted a biggest sealed battery he could get (?), the price $167 is all I know about it. It'll last a few years anyway, I hope.

Priced an Optima Yellow Top, the D34A is $430. Expensive, but rangerovers.net say it's pretty good.

Originally Posted by p38arover

I'm using a calcium battery in mine.

I thought the calcium batteries were for the later cars with the different, higher voltage alternators .

Factory fit have lead acid up to 1998 & calcium from 1999.

Originally Posted by Scouse

I thought the calcium batteries were for the later cars with the different, higher voltage alternators .

Factory fit have lead acid up to 1998 & calcium from 1999.

Could be. Maybe that's why they aren't lasting.

Thanks Scott. Now to investigate further.

I also put a calcium in my daughter's '95 D1. It's what the local LR specialists are supplying to their customers. I wonder if that's wrong.

That's the info we were told when the XA RR & DII came out.

Fitting a calcuim into an earlier car would mean that the battery never gets fully charged.
Fitting a lead acid into a later car means that the battery is overcharging.

I have seen evidence of the 2nd scenario & the resulting damage when the battery has boiled over for a while.

I'm running 2nd hand calciums in my Morris Minors but they don't have to work too hard anyway .