Battery

[RZ1]

I need to get a battery for the MR2, p reg, NA.

Had look at halfords and euro car parts and the price is around £59.99, was hoping it would be less then that.
Any recomendations on where else to try, happy to buy online if they deliver and no urgency as its a 2nd weekend car.

[Pints]

I bought a battery off eBay for much cheaper than I'd get at Halfords. Big enough supplier and plenty of feedback.

£60 isn't too bad for a battery though. Mine was around £100 at Halfords.

[G600]

Try and find someone with a trade card for halfords, I got about £35 off when I replaced my battery.

[Mr2Mike]

The MR2 takes an 005 sized battery, and a quick search shows that the Halfords price is (very surprisingly) not bad.

Try you local battery specialist however (check yellow pages), I've always had better prices from them. I think the "BATTERY15" discount code for Euro Car Parts still works - this gives you 15% off but they aren't hugely cheap to start with.

[RZ1]

Cheers for the feedback, will spend some time calling a few locals and scanning online tonight and see what i can get

[firman]

Where in bucks are you? Try Bedford battery and if no luck let me know and I will get you a trade card price from Halfrauds

[RZ1]

I am in Chesham on the South Bucks / Herts border

[firman]

Euro Car Parts have a 3 year Guarantee battery for £45.54

http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/c/Toyota_MR2_2.0_1...

[RZ1]

Interesting, on Eurocar parts, without the reg no and just selecting 1996 MR2, it gives me a lot more options on batteries (10), with the registrations it only gives me the 2 most expensive options???

[traffman]

I though this was about a Metallica song!!!

[firman]

traffman said:

I though this was about a Metallica song!!!

[E30M3SE]

Try car parts 4 less

[V40TC]

http://www.tayna.co.uk/
had 4 from these over the years different cars
best service from any company I have ever used.

Nothing to do with me only a customer.

[Marlin45]

I used these guys for the last battery. Bought a quality Bosch.

Just checked yours out and £57 all in. A bit more than some of the other quotes above but I don't know the brands quoted.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bosch-S4-Car-Battery-Typ...

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Do what I did.

Go to 'Vistaprint' and order the smallest quantity of business cards - it's about a fiver.

Create a fictional car garage the cards.

Go into Halfords wearing some overalls and ask for a trade card. They will ask you for a business card, you hand over the ones you made earlier.

You receive a trade card.

You get 25% off a battery (and all other spares / parts / service items for ever)

Ok, not strictly 'by the book' but I spend lots at Halfords and I often fix mates cars too so I felt kinda justfied

[E30M3SE]

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

You get 25% off a battery (and all other spares / parts / service items for ever)

That's not really a saving when it's all marked up to ridiculous levels to start with, eg

Bosch S5 096 battery in halfords is £126.99 same battery at CP4L is £83.94, approx 34% less.

Bosch plugs for a 1.6 Focus in halfords £ 18.49 at cp4l £7.92

I'm sure I could go on.

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

E30M3SE said:

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

You get 25% off a battery (and all other spares / parts / service items for ever)

That's not really a saving when it's all marked up to ridiculous levels to start with, eg

Bosch S5 096 battery in halfords is £126.99 same battery at CP4L is £83.94, approx 34% less.

Bosch plugs for a 1.6 Focus in halfords £ 18.49 at cp4l £7.92

I'm sure I could go on.

Yep, but if you research and take in evidence they'll also beat other prices too.

Anyway. Not always the best, but a trade card plus local store opening late convenience means for me, can be a winner.

[nelly1]

V40TC said:

http://www.tayna.co.uk/
had 4 from these over the years different cars
best service from any company I have ever used.

+1 to that.

[McSam]

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

Do what I did.

Go to 'Vistaprint' and order the smallest quantity of business cards - it's about a fiver.

Create a fictional car garage the cards.

Go into Halfords wearing some overalls and ask for a trade card. They will ask you for a business card, you hand over the ones you made earlier.

You receive a trade card.

You get 25% off a battery (and all other spares / parts / service items for ever)

Ok, not strictly 'by the book' but I spend lots at Halfords and I often fix mates cars too so I felt kinda justfied

A store working by the rules will not provide you with a trade card for that - it'll take a payslip showing an applicable job title / company name. Sometime you'd get away with it, but not a guarantee.

Trade price is often far more than 25% discount, by the way, on parts it's variable (80% on some bulbs), only for tools and oil is it fixed at 20%.

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

McSam said:

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

Do what I did.

Go to 'Vistaprint' and order the smallest quantity of business cards - it's about a fiver.

Create a fictional car garage the cards.

Go into Halfords wearing some overalls and ask for a trade card. They will ask you for a business card, you hand over the ones you made earlier.

You receive a trade card.

You get 25% off a battery (and all other spares / parts / service items for ever)

Ok, not strictly 'by the book' but I spend lots at Halfords and I often fix mates cars too so I felt kinda justfied

A store working by the rules will not provide you with a trade card for that - it'll take a payslip showing an applicable job title / company name. Sometime you'd get away with it, but not a guarantee.

Trade price is often far more than 25% discount, by the way, on parts it's variable (80% on some bulbs), only for tools and oil is it fixed at 20%.

Orly? Maybe I was lucky then - but it did say on the Halfords website that a card was acceptable by itself - maybe it's changed now.

The overalls I was wearing at the time are branded 'Mercedes Benz Service' so I did look the part.

I even had grubby hands and fingernails that day