Which battery?

[rriggs]

My dad has been unable to use his car for a while and it is flat as a pancake

I want to get a new battery for it but it’s not clear what I need. Nothing in the handbook and the sticker on the battery doesn’t seem to match up with anything I can find online. It’s not stop start AFAIK and it’s pretty small

Any advice on exactly what I should be looking for? Will any 60ah battery the right size work? The online tools (a la Halfords, etc) are suggesting 45ah or 50ah.

The car is a 2017 Vauxhall Viva auto and this is the battery:

[rriggs]

Thanks for the reply. I hadn’t heard of Tanya but just tried that and it recommended a 50ah battery from the reg. dimensions look good and doesn’t look like AGM:

https://www.tayna.co.uk/car-batteries/enduroline/0...

Isn’t AGM just the battery technology? The car is not start stop (which I understand needs to be AGM) so is this essential or recommended?

[rriggs]

Thanks for the info

The plan once I get a battery on the car is to get it MOT’d (expired) and sell it for him so future proofing isn’t a worry for us

So, in summary, a 60ah battery the right dimensions and should be good to go? (Assuming we get away without needing coding)

[rriggs]

Nice one. Thanks fella

[Jaguar99]

Finally got around to ordering a new battery for my dads car

Unpacked it this morning and there are labels and warnings all of the wrappings saying to remove the transit plugs before use

I have looked and cannot see any transit plugs. I would expect red on opposite sides near the top of the battery if they were there

The battery is and Exide AGM/VRLA which I got from Tayna and it seems Tayna put the labels and warnings on when they wrapped it for despatch

Could it be they just label all of them to be safe regardless of whether there are vents/plugs or not or am I just being dim because I can’t see them?

[Jaguar99]

Scrump said:

Post a few photos of the new battery. The vents will be near the top, usually to the side.

Thanks. That’s what I was expecting. I’m back home now but will look again and take photos when I go down to his house again

[Jaguar99]

Actually, forget that - just had a message from Tayna:

“I am very sorry about this.

We have had some new starters recently.

I can confirm that the EK600 is an AGM battery and doesn't have any transit plugs to be removed.

Kind regards”

[Jaguar99]

Chris32345 said:

AGM batteries shouldn't generally have vent plugs as the are usually sealed

That’s what I originally thought until I opened the packaging and found stickers and leaflets saying there was

The supplier has since confirmed that this was a mistake and there are no vent plugs