Don't buy cheap crap batteries! It had a Yuasa in 2013, so I don't know when this "ebay only brand" one was installed.
Not guilty M'lud - only thing I did was put some charge into it whilst in my custody - has you state pointless purchasing rubbish that said I've recently had a big name period / bespoke battery fail quite badly in its early life recently and despite all the manufactures yawn about how good they are they wouldn't honour their guarantee- stating that I must have dropped the battery and that their battery cases never crack of their own accord (They won't getting any further business from me)
Painful to behold - really shouldn't happen nowadays...
For batteries I use Tayna who are brilliant if you can wait a day or so, or Halfords own brand if needed there & then at a weekend, as they so often are of course. The Yuasa ones in my experience always let go of their meagre grip on life just after you've lost the receipt - they used to swap them regardless but not nowadays and I've never had one last its warranty life - ever!
- Never even crossed my mind! You would be the last person to do that!
I'm a big fan of Tayna too, as I am on the IOW shipping can be an issue.
Sluiced it out today, gave everything a wash down with a hose having already gone overboard with the bicarb. Mopped up, picked up all the broken bits of battery and blew out the electrics with air, now there is a fan heater sitting in it.
Not sure if that spigot by the +ve terminal was supposed to be a vent - but it does not go anywhere!
Thanks for the tip I'll avoid Yuasa. I was impressed by the original Varta that I replaced in our Diesel Picasso - 17 years and 200,000 miles old and it was just getting sluggish in the cold
Cant for the life of me remember the brand that we put in our diesel bongo years ago. It was one one of those half way decent budget brands.. we must have got a good 8 years out of it and was still going strong when we sold the old girl.
Nope, I really don't think so. High voltage was measured on the battery a week before indicating a battery fault - not a fault I considered as urgent though!
It's only a 6a charger with a 10a fuse in it, and it was on float mode.
Got to the bottom of this, as I had a chance for a bit of forensic examination, I found the transport plug still in the one side and the other in the bag of bits I picked up. Obviously only a cheap carp battery would explode before blowing out a transport plug, but that explains why it happened.
I had an apprentice about 40 years ago who, no matter how many times I told him the correct method would remove the charger leads before switching the charger off. Until one day the inevitable happened. The battery had been on charge too long and was gassing quite a bit. The idiot took a clamp off, created a spark and what a bang it was. Deafening. He fell back on the floor screaming as I rushed over and thinking he had acid on his face pulled the fire hose out and turned it on which made him mad. Turned out he was just shocked by the explosion and I had nearly drowned him ha ha. He did learn though.
Seems like the first dry, non sub-zero day this year. Managed to get out and get on with Kate. The new RHS rear was well stuck on but where she had been previously repaired there was about 3 mm of filler
So I broke out the 120 w/d and reduced the overhang considerably hopefully maintaining (and slightly improving) the wheel flare
Then got the first coat of filler on
Turning to the inside, I was unsuccessful in drilling the 245 spot welds holding the original panel returns together so I had to cut it off meaning there is a 1-2mm gap that needs to be welded. Now others may be able to weld the edges of two 1.2mm plates together but not me, especially with no rear access for a copper plate. So I made up a couple of plates to fit over that I will weld over the top having pumped the gap full of sealant and coated with primer first.
