Battery

[Stephen Kormilo]

  Dan,

Wow! Your local Dealer must be offering you the gold-plated Audi Limited 
Edition battery ;)

In June, I had to replace the original battery in my A4 (over 8 years 
old, not too bad for battery longevity) near the beginning of a month 
long road trip to the Grand Canyon. Sunset Audi in Portland, OR sold me 
an Audi battery for $100. They wanted $60 to install, so I ended up 
doing it myself in their parking lot, with the kind loan of a torx bit 
on a long extension to be able to loosen the lower clamp.

Cheers,

Stephen Kormilo
Nanoose Bay, BC
Canada

Silver 2002 Audi A4 3.0QM
Now Departed: Silver '98.5 Audi A4 2.8QM
                             Black '85 Mazda Rx7 GSL-SE

email: stephen at kormilo.ca


On 06/10/2010 9:33 AM, quattro-request at audifans.com wrote:
> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 06:25:28 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dan DiBiase<d_dibiase at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Battery
> To:quattro at audifans.com
> Message-ID:<835581.96551.qm at web50907.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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> Anything magical about Audi's batteries? My is getting weak, and a new one from
> the dealer is $245. I can get one at Advance Auto Parts
> for $95 installed. Any reason I should get the OEM battery??
>
>   Dan D
> '04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
> Central NJ USA