Lol, batteries arent expensive!

I paid about £27 for a mahoosive frontera one to go in my old Astra.
Direct from Vaux (That was trade club though)

my uncle dropped into the Lexus dealership for a new battery.... they quoted him £198+VAT for the battery and £120+VAT for fitting....

he told them he could get the same battery somewhere else for £56 (just pulled the number out of the air) so they matched the price..... so he asked for a discount on the fitting saying £120+vat was a bit much... so they came back with.... £100+vat....

so he told them to chuck the battery in the boot and hed sort it out later on


robbing bastards !

Has something magical happened to cars that you would need help fitting a battery? Last time I did it I unscrewed the two terminals, clipped the new battery in place and screwed the terminals back on.

Havent looked to see if the new car is more complicated than that.

I know what you mean. I just paid a lot of money for quite a few things to be done to my car too. I just dont have the time to do the work myself. But atleast its done.

You could get a 2nd hand battery from a scrap yard possibly?

I actually have a seperate bank account called "Car Main" and I put money in it each month and use that when I need to, so if something bad happens I can dip into that instead of going with my normal current account.

Cease to exist?