My new battery has been damaged in delivery. Advice please.

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Hi, buying leisure batteries in Spain is very costly, so I ordered from Tayna a new one, they failed to send it, after a week I reminded them, they forgot, great, so finally they sent it....great again, now its here, well sort of here.....its damaged, in transit..or whatever vehicle it was travelling in.
So this is my question, my current battery only showed itself to be faulty when I put it under cover...no solar energy....I took it off the van and charged it, it slowly discharged. Buying a 115ah battery here cost 280€....uk £95....I have a 150w solar panel, I have a gennie, do I travel with this battery on Friday or would it be possible to just buy a 110ah starter battery and travel with that......any advice please, starter battery will cost 100€....
 
I've used a starter battery as a Hab battery for the past 12 years because I have access to free new ones.
No probs at all. The first lasted 8 years and the current one still going at 4 years old. I only use EHU occasionally, no solar and I drive (move on) maybe 50 to 80 miles every couple of days which recharges it.
It only has to power the water pump, internal (filament) lights, charge my phone and tablet and fire the fridge igniter for a couple of seconds when relighting it at a new stop.
No T.V.
 
Without knowing exactly what is happening with the original I-d go with the 100é starter.
I actually had 2 leisure batterys off of a friend last year in the Uk one perfect ,which I have on the van, the other drops slowly but even now is still showing -green- on the eye ball thing .With solar here if I was desperate I would use it having charged it first but as I say witout knowing what yours does I would be loath to suggest it.

** I-ve just remembered & checked also ,but I have a Yu-power ,12/75 lead acid leaisure battery that was one of a pair renewed on a golf buggy. This hasn't been on charge since last Friday & is showing 12,50v at the moment. You are more than welcome to take & use it until whenever if you want ,although you'd have to collect it.
It is an odd size though being 265L x 165w x 225H & posts are both 6mm bolts.
 
gus-lopez said:
Without knowing exactly what is happening with the original I-d go with the 100é starter.
I actually had 2 leisure batterys off of a friend last year in the Uk one perfect ,which I have on the van, the other drops slowly but even now is still showing -green- on the eye ball thing .With solar here if I was desperate I would use it having charged it first but as I say witout knowing what yours does I would be loath to suggest it.

** I-ve just remembered & checked also ,but I have a Yu-power ,12/75 lead acid leaisure battery that was one of a pair renewed on a golf buggy. This hasn't been on charge since last Friday & is showing 12,50v at the moment. You are more than welcome to take & use it until whenever if you want ,although you'd have to collect it.
It is an odd size though being 265L x 165w x 225H & posts are both 6mm bolts.
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Cheers Gus, going to sit down and have a big think for a few hours....thanks for the offers, a UK friend told me that Norauto do a Varta 90ah for 142€ thats a starter/leisure type....
 
Plenty of sun this time of year so providing you don't have the TV on for hours every night you will probably get away with the old battery. A starter battery would get you by at this time of year but won't much good later in the year but nearly all the cheaper leisure batteries are a starter battery will a different label.
 
jumar said:
Cheers Gus, going to sit down and have a big think for a few hours....thanks for the offers, a UK friend told me that Norauto do a Varta 90ah for 142€ thats a starter/leisure type....
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If that is a Varta LDF90 they work very well as a leisure battery & only a few quid dearer than the UK (about £98 + £10 carriage more to Spain).
 
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Lenny HB said:
If that is a Varta LDF90 they work very well as a leisure battery & only a few quid dearer than the UK (about £98 + £10 carrage more to Spain).
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That's the one we got when changing our leisure battery on recommendation from some fella on here! :whistle2:
I see various places say it's a dual purpose battery (starter \ leisure) and as we're looking at changing our starter battery is it any good for that?:unsure:
 
Gellyneck said:
That's the one we got when changing our leisure battery on recommendation from some fella on here! :whistle2:
I see various places say it's a dual purpose battery (starter \ leisure) and as we're looking at changing our starter battery is it any good for that?:unsure:
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Honestly don't know but they are the same as the Lucas silver dynamic so it should be.

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Lenny HB said:
Honestly don't know but they are the same as the Lucas silver dynamic so it should be.
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Totally unacceptable!:rolleyes:
You should be oot there getting one and trying it so you can keep me right!;):giggle:
Might just go ahead and get one albeit the current one is a 95Ah battery at over 7 years old.
 
Thanks Funsters for your sound advice, I have decided to start our journey tomorrow with the old battery in situ.......I will be able to monitor it while we are away, I know that we can buy a Varta LDF90 at various outlets of the Norauto shop....
Tayna batteries in the UK have been a total nightmare, I have bought from them before, but never again, they overlooked our order for 8 days, finally when the battery was sent it slowly made its way here, via DHL Express, then the tracking stopped, DHL had broken the battery....but nobody told us.....I had to chase it up myself.....Stay safe guys, its a crazy big world out there....
 
jumar said:
Thanks Funsters for your sound advice, I have decided to start our journey tomorrow with the old battery in situ.......I will be able to monitor it while we are away, I know that we can buy a Varta LDF90 at various outlets of the Norauto shop....
Tayna batteries in the UK have been a total nightmare, I have bought from them before, but never again, they overlooked our order for 8 days, finally when the battery was sent it slowly made its way here, via DHL Express, then the tracking stopped, DHL had broken the battery....but nobody told us.....I had to chase it up myself.....Stay safe guys, its a crazy big world out there....
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I have bought probably 25 batteries from Tanya over the last 5 years and have always had very good service from them. Hopefully you have just been unlucky.

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spongy said:
I have bought probably 25 batteries from Tanya over the last 5 years and have always had very good service from them. Hopefully you have just been unlucky.

spongy
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I have too, however my order was not processed in the first instance, they forgot to send it, we were delayed in leaving for our trip, they even told me it was out of stock after I called them, it wasn't, then a guy said sorry its been overlooked, if it had of been out of stock they could have offered me an alternative, they didn't.
Then it failed in the delivery, thank goodness for tracking, it got taken off the scheduled date, because it had been damaged, that was another call to chase them....otherwise I would have still been here, waiting....unlucky, yes, but being lied too is another matter....one I don't like.
 

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