Battery Life

john ( snipped-for-privacy@shebaya.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Of course. The battery just delivers the current required of it by the circuits drawing power.

It'll be rated as 75Ah - amp/hours - which means that it'll (roughly) deliver 75 amps for an hour before being flat. Or 25 amps for three hours. Or 5 amps for 15 hours. There's also a CCA (Cold Cranking Amps) rating, which is considerably higher. That's the maximum amount of power it'll deliver to the starter motor.

Somewhere there is a manual for 9000uk 1989 that I downloaded and used for my '93 9000 CSE until I bought one on ebay. It was close enought.

Don't know where I got it but if you want it, I'll make it available for download but it's a 20 meg zip.

If your Russian is good, there's a '94 manual at:

Frank

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As Adrian says, don't worry too much about the capacity.

You do, of course, need to get one which physically fits, works with whatever arrangement your car has for clamping it down and has the right type of terminals in the right place for your cables.

Pretty-much any place that sells batteries will be able to look your car up and sell you something suitable.

As an aside, I've never been able to work out why there's so many different types of car battery. Surely a standard "big", a standard "medium" and a standard "little" would be so much more efficient...

Cheers,

Colin.