Ted Newman
Member Since: 09 Oct 2010
Location: SE London
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Our MY10 D4 battery died on us in France two years ago - the local garage fitted a new battery and it has not been a problem since - so presumably it is easy enough to see what sort of battery should be fitted. As a by the way we were in the middle of nowhere and the garage was a husband and wife affair BUT he did have a diagnostic thing that he plugged into the D4.
 LR Discovery 4 XS pulling an Airstream 532 Caravan also own (since new) a 1996 MGF
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 9th Aug 2019 9:50 pm |
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gvw
Member Since: 16 Jan 2012
Location: South Yorkshire
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I also got the exide AGM as recommended by various folks on the forum at the time and up to know has been good.
As also advised I reset the BMS with my IID
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| 9th Aug 2019 10:27 pm |
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Washwipe
Member Since: 19 Apr 2013
Location: Bucks Oxon Herts Border
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Svenb wrote:Also it’s not an AGM battery as I don’t have stop/start
I had an MY12, no stop start but had an AGM battery fitted when I bought it at three months old.
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| 10th Aug 2019 9:57 am |
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Pedros
Member Since: 25 Jun 2011
Location: Cumbria
Posts: 454
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Okay, I have a 2010 D4 and the battery is probably going to need changed before winter. I believe it's a type 019 battery that fits. But I have a couple of questions: What's AGM? And what's the difference between a battery for stop/start and one that's not? I don't have stop/start, but if the stop/start batteries are better, that might be a consideration. Oh, and if I take the battery off, do I need to put a code into the stereo to get it to work again? Thanks.
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| 28th Sep 2019 12:41 am |
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Svenb
Member Since: 18 Sep 2016
Location: Surrey
Posts: 63
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Not 100% sure about the benefits of an AGM battery, but they’re used for stop/start cars. They can be used on non stop/start, but I’m not sure the advantages are worth the cost?
In my research a couple months ago I found that Halfords had the best options, I got a Yuasa 100Ah/900A silver for about £70
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| 28th Sep 2019 9:08 am |
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2Springers
Member Since: 12 Apr 2012
Location: Surrey
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Last month I Fitted my D4 with an EK950 Exide 017 Battery AGM with 95AH capacity and 850 Amps cold cranking. The OE battery in my D4 was an Exide AGM so fitted something with very similar specs.
From memory Landrover started putting AGM batteries in from around MY2011 when they found the D4 non AGM batteries were failing prematurely.
I always used tayna.co.uk but other suppliers are available. They have an ebay store so look out for ebay 10% or 20% off deals - battery cost me £109 incl VAT and delivery.
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| 2nd Oct 2019 6:09 pm |
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