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| posted on May 29th, 2012 at 04:31 PM |
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best battery
hi, any recommendations for a a very good car battery, for my vw. thanks greg
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| posted on May 29th, 2012 at 06:32 PM |
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Part no 3372 for a standard battery or part no 3552 for a premium battery
Those part numbers are used by roadside services RACV RACQ RAA NRMA etc.
Ours is 5 years old now, and still fine.
This is a recessed post battery as used by many European branded and manufactured vehicles including BMW, Porsche, Mercedes, Citroen, Fiat, Lancia,
Vectra etc.
The reason for recessed post being very important with a Beetle is that if someone sits on the back seat and the battery is too high, the metal
springs can touch the battery terminals. This can then start the fibre in the seat to catch fire.
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| posted on May 29th, 2012 at 07:55 PM |
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Exide Premium batteries all come with recessed posts, so you don't have to buy the expensive European sizes. They've performed really well for me
and have lasted for at least seven years so far. The best part is that K-Mart stock them and therefore they're really cheap, I'm pretty sure that
mine was less than $100 at K-Mart.
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| posted on May 29th, 2012 at 08:14 PM |
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I recently got the century H/duty DIN53 500CC rated flush top terminals fit under the back seat fine i my 69 baja. available in left and right hand
terminal orientation DIN53R & DIN53L. I got one of each for a dual battery setup. just need to square out a corner in the floor pan to fit them
both on the right side.
cheers
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| posted on May 29th, 2012 at 09:08 PM |
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Whats the biggest size that fits in the well?
And in regards the recessed post my bug still the the battery cover set up from stock? Is that rare?
1969 1500
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| posted on May 29th, 2012 at 09:33 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by wild baja
I recently got the century H/duty DIN53 500CC rated flush top terminals fit under the back seat fine i my 69 baja. available in left and right hand
terminal orientation DIN53R & DIN53L. I got one of each for a dual battery setup. just need to square out a corner in the floor pan to fit them
both on the right side.
cheers
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got the same in the bug but only one. works well.
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| posted on May 29th, 2012 at 09:51 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by 69bug
Whats the biggest size that fits in the well?
And in regards the recessed post my bug still the the battery cover set up from stock? Is that rare?
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Ours is 500CCA.
Our Beetle has a cover on the battery. Probably not that rare.
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