Price of OEM Battery For D3

[TerryO]

The battery died in the D3 today and its the third different brand battery to die in just over 4 years.
So I decided instead of just going down the road and buying another no name battery I would call a Land Rover dealer and see if they had a OEM battery in stock for sale, why? Because I remembered reading in here a couple of years back that standard fitment LR Disco battery's were not only very good quality but also very reasonably priced.

Well they might be very good quality but when the guy in spares told me they were $720 I decided that maybe a no name battery was the go.

So a question please, has anyone got any recommendations for a good quality brand of battery that doesn't cost a fortune and will last hopefully more than a year?

[disco4now]

Hi Terry,

I just installed one of these Supercharge MF88H last week in the D4. $229 plus delivery of $10 in metro.

https://www.onlinebatteries.com.au/a...MF88H&x=7&y=10

Don't know if it lasts as yet.

Oops, just search AULRO and see you have had one before (for six months anyway). Hope mine lasts better.

I was thinking Varta AGM (G14) for $410 up until the last minute but went for the Supercharge in the end as only got two years out of the last genuine Land Rover one anyway. ( I think the Optima D34 via Traxide in shared mode carried it for the last 4 months of that anyway).

Regards,
Gerry

[rrturboD]

Looks like the last Varta Ultra AGM G14 I supplied was $401.00. So hope this helps you choose.

[Beerdead]

Put an Acdelco in a couple of months ago. Too early to assess it's reliability, but around the $240 mark, from Newcastle Batteries.

According to the salesman it's made in the same factory as OEM, but no LR label. We'll see.

They sell online.

[Piddler]

Try your local Caterpillar dealer. I know when I wanted one for my D2 they had many options and was a very good price. You can find there battery PDF brochure on line by searching.
Being off road equipment they are very well made.

Cheers

[xoph44]

Let me google that for you..

VARTA G14 AGM DEEP CYCLE START STOP BATTERY 12V 95AH 850CCA 2YR WARRANTY

$385 Free Delivery on Flea Bay

Cheers
Chris

[jonesy63]

Hi Terry,
When the battery in my D4 died earlier this year, the Allianz roadside assistance guy that LRCC send out offered me a Supercharge MF88H - as he had them in the back of his ute. I knew that LR had recently replaced the Varta wet cell battery for an Exide AGM, I politely declined and said I'd go to the closest dealer to have one fitted. At that time, they were something like $624, IIRC. I'm glad they're covered under warranty!

[p38arover]

Is it just the load cars now put on batteries that kills them? In the 12 years I've had my P38A I must have been through 6 batteries.

[discotwinturbo]

Is it just the load cars now put on batteries that kills them? In the 12 years I've had my P38A I must have been through 6 batteries.

It certainly would not help.

I think also due to alternators not looking after batteries.

Quality multistage battery charger will help and often.

Both my cars still going strong. Vw Touareg at 6 years still original and they go through the same issues. D4 almost 3 years and still going strong. Previous car 7 years and not replaced. Works for me.

Brett....

[drivesafe]

I think also due to alternators not looking after batteries.

For the life of me, I don’t know where people come up with this sort of misinformation.

Modern vehicle alternator operation, particularly those in D3s and D4s, are better suited at charging batteries than previous vehicles.

The primary factor that governs cranking battery life span is owner use and/or abuse.

If you do lots of short trips, the your battery is going to suffer from what I call Shopping Trolley Syndrome, you will harm the cranking battery, because the battery is never given the chance to be fully charged and this is not an inability of the alternator to do what it’s designed and capable of doing, this the alternator not being given enough time to do what it’s there for.

Even if you do the occasional long trip, continual short trips still have a detrimental effect on any cranking battery.

As you suggested, the way to try to improve cranking battery life span is by the periodic use of a multi stage battery charger, and if you use a battery charger, irrespective of the size of the battery charger or the battery, leave the charger on the battery for 8 to 10 hours after the charger goes into FLOAT mode.

A battery charger, by the time it goes into FLOAT mode, has only charge the amount of battery capacity that can be charged, but by leaving the battery on the charger in FLOAT mode, the battery’s condition is improved/maintained.