How long do batteries last?

[guitarman]

Mine's OE and is coming up to 6 years old and is now struggling to start the bike sometimes. It's always lived outside and never seen an Optimate or charger so I reckon 6 years is quite reasonable.

From Motorworks I can get an OE battery for about £50 or a Hawker for the best part of £86. Considering that the OE has lasted as long as it has with no attention is there any reason for spending over £30 more on some flash American battery?

Cheers

Dick

 

[cookie]

proper BMW OEM batteries seem to be top notch & last longer than others IMLE.

dry batteries don't leak acid onto your paintwork when the bike falls over. that seems to be their major advantage over wet cells for me.

as you've discovered the standard batteries do not need molly coddling with optimates etc. as long as the bike is used occasionally.

 

[Steptoe]

From Motorworks I can get an OE battery for about £50 or a Hawker for the best part of £86.

Don't get the wet type BM battery for £50, go for the gel sealed model = fit and forget.

Les wassel posted up somewhere selling hawker batteries for £60ish.

 

[guitarman]

Thanks guys. some useful stuff (as usual)

Cheers

Dick

 

[Les Wassall]

Cheshire Batteries Ltd01270 255493383 West StCrewe, CW1 3HY

About £59.00, if you can't collect or they don't post, mail me and I could sort postage out for you, as I only live a few miles away

 

[judge]

Don't get the wet type BM battery for £50, go for the gel sealed model = fit and forget.

Les wassel posted up somewhere selling hawker batteries for £60ish.

What about the but about fekkin Hawker being a total box of bollox or is that not public knowledge?

 

[Iain Hogg]

I take then Andy that you weren't entirely satisfied with it then?

 

[guitarman]

Cheshire Batteries Ltd01270 255493383 West StCrewe, CW1 3HY

About £59.00, if you can't collect or they don't post, mail me and I could sort postage out for you, as I only live a few miles away

Thanks for the offer Les but I ordered an OE one this afternoon (and from what the Judge him say ....... )

Cheers

Dick

 

[judge]

I take then Andy that you weren't entirely satisfied with it then?

Me??? Never owned one - but a bloke with a horse and cart from Shepherds Bush does and I was quoting him verbatim

 

[Steptoe]

What about the but about fekkin Hawker being a total box of bollox or is that not public knowledge?

I was just pointing out to Dick that Les knew of a place doing hawkers at a good price - nowhere do i recommend the shite hawker battery

 

[judge]

I was just pointing out to Dick that Les knew of a place doing hawkers at a good price - nowhere do i recommend the shite hawker battery

Well that's alright then

 

[Les Wassall]

Always new there was something dodgy about a red coloured battery better take mine back

 

[guitarman]

Blimey I didn't mean to start a fight