Buy a battery from halfords and they will kindly fit it for you for only £5!

If you see what a c*ck-up people make of fitting their own batteries you would realise that for the average Joe 5 pounds is really cheap. I have frequently seen: batteries reverse fitted blowing alternators, wrong size fitted, clamps left off, clamps left to fall down into other bits, terminals loose, radio codes lost and need expensive recoding, leads left off, small leads connected to the wrong post, clamps touching the battery posts,

So having a pro fit it for a fiver is cheap, at least you have some recompense if they do it wrong, I expect they also check if the alternator is working, most people fit a new battery and expect it to cure all ills.

MrCheerful

Agreed!, I changed a battery recently and it took me an hour, mainly because I had to rig a device to keep the radio code and I managed to drop the nut from one of the clamps onto a gravel drive and spent 20 minutes searching for it!

I remember sorting out a garage fitted battery for my uncle many years ago after they had connected it as positive earth. Fortunately, no damage was done after repolarising the dynamo (alternators were few and far between in those days).

One of Halford's staff actually fitted my CD player for no charge after I'd bought a fittting adaptor on his advice. The CD player was from Argos. :-)

Terry D.

Je**s... A Fiver is 2 pints and a pack of Nuts.......!!!!!! LOL

Wonder what sort of 'pro' Halfords use? The ones I've come across behind the spares counter that you'd expect to have at least some form of training aren't exactly encouraging.

Technically any d*****ad they're paying is a "pro".

Well....Donegal in NW Ireland :-(