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Post Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 3:19 pm 
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Battery in vehicle has died,need to replace it, it is an 11 plate 420 cold cranking amps.
The old battery fairly small & it seems plenty room to fit a larger more powerful battery
What are most people fitting??

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Post Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 5:01 pm 
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Being its a 96, which side of the engine bay is it?

If its the passenger side then yeah you can fit a pretty big battery without much drama, just measure it the tray and the height and see what will fit

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Post Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:54 pm 
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I beat the tray flat in mine and put a 620CCA in there.

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Post Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 2:02 pm 
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Thanks Pico42 thats the sort of thing I was looking for.
Didnt think to flatten tray but great idea. Will look around for something in 620cc !

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Post Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:30 pm 
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By the look of the size of that battery an optima d34 yellow top would be substantially smaller with a higher output 750cca and 55 amp hour.
All the dimensions are on there web site and you can pick them up for around $220 on eBay and kpd 4x4 dose thence a good price , it's been a couple of years since I brought on from kpd though.

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Post Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:34 pm 
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^this.

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Post Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:52 pm 
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J--A--C--K wrote:
By the look of the size of that battery an optima d34 yellow top would be substantially smaller with a higher output 750cca and 55 amp hour.
All the dimensions are on there web site and you can pick them up for around $220 on eBay and kpd 4x4 dose thence a good price , it's been a couple of years since I brought on from kpd though.



I would do this too.
We deliberately decided on a cheaper ordinary battery because we didn't know when we would next use the vehicle - could be a year before we used it next. If we were in tha same location as the vehicle, we would drive the hell out of it and drop an optima in.

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