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Halfords Standard

A surprisingly good battery, considering it’s from Halfords’ standard range

By:Auto Express team

19 Sep 2007

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Introduction
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UKBatteries Value
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UKBatteries Platinum Prestige
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Odyssey PC 925
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Lucas Premium 3
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Exide Excell
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Numax Premium
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Exide Maxxima 900DC
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Exide X-Tra Plus
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Halfords Standard - currently reading
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Halfords Advanced

Halfords Standard rating

4.0

Price: £49.99
Guarantee: Three years

Contact: Halfords 08457 626625, www.halfords.com

A surprisingly good battery, considering it’s from Halfords’ standard range. A night in the freezer still left the battery able to give five no-nonsense starts, and our part discharged cranking test showed equal vigour too – despite a relatively average 360 cranking amps rating. Even the bulb test resulted in a very impressive 315 minutes.

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In This Review

Introduction
On a charge to find the best car battery from 8 top buys
UKBatteries Value
Value by name but not by price or performance, judging by our test
UKBatteries Platinum Prestige
This first offering from UKBatteries couldn’t be more different from its Value battery
Odyssey PC 925
Flat-plate AGM technology means stunning performance from a battery that’s actually smaller than the 063s in the group
Lucas Premium 3
Yuasa is no longer supplying batteries to Lucas, but this doesn’t seem to have been detrimental to their performance
Exide Excell
One of the few batteries tested here to be priced under the £40 barrier, which makes its average performance in the test rather more acceptable.
Numax Premium
A commended performer in our last big battery test, but the Numax Premium couldn’t repeat that kind of result this time around
Exide Maxxima 900DC
Our first AGM battery boasts 900 amps of cranking power, despite not being much bigger than a standard 063 casing
Exide X-Tra Plus
This wasn’t the outright best performer, but no other product here can beat this battery’s trade-off between output and price
Halfords Standard
· currently reading
A surprisingly good battery, considering it’s from Halfords’ standard range
Halfords Advanced
The advanced range of batteries from Halfords uses calcium technology, which bumps up the price, warranty, and, in theory, the overall performance

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Halfords Standard

A surprisingly good battery, considering it’s from Halfords’ standard range

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