battery charger

Where can I buy one for my car battery?

Global House has MANY makes & sizes....

Ray.Charles wrote:Where can I buy one for my car battery?

any tesco , big C and i bet also makro .

Has anyone purchased one who has had good results and benefits please.

Make and approx cost and where from would be appreciated as I wish to buy one also.

Thank you

marshbags

marshbags wrote:Has anyone purchased one who has had good results and benefits please.

Make and approx cost and where from would be appreciated as I wish to buy one also.

Thank you

marshbags

the 1 i bought was from tesco if i remember 690bt it does 6v and 12 cant tell you the make as wifes brothers borrowed it worked well no problem , well maybe problem getting it back from brother .....

Did not think about Global. Will check it out, perhaps Tool-Pro, as well.
Went to TESCO though; did not have any chargers. Bought a jumper cable, 400A, 3 meter long, for 345 baht, they ranged from 200 baht to well over 500 baht -- a good thing to have when your car had been sitting on a roadside for over 30 minutes, and you had forgotten to turn-off your headlamps.

The battery (and the car) is 2 year and 9 months old. Perhaps it is time for a new battery. Any place besides the dealer for that?

Ray.Charles wrote:The battery (and the car) is 2 year and 9 months old. Perhaps it is time for a new battery. Any place besides the dealer for that?

You will be surprised how much difference a new battery makes, and you've done well to get 2 years 9 months out of the one you got. I left my interior light on when my car was parked up for several weeks and it completely knackered the battery. It wouldn't even take a charge. I picked up a new one from a place located on the khon kean road on the right hand side as you come into town, past wing 23 and the toyota showroom on the opposite side. When you change the battery make sure you have the code for your radio. If you cant find the code, don't disconnect the supply to the vehicle when changing the battery. Use a piece of wire connected to old battery and the battery connector until the new battery is fitted.

OT.............

My problem is I don,t use the pick up much and the battery usually runs down, plus most of the time it is only around the local area.

I,ve recently bought a new battery ( my third in seven years )

Now I have started disconecting the -tive lead and only connect it to do my usual maint. run and warm up or if I am going somewhere in it.

It was confirmed buy the supplier that doing this would not harm the vehicle.

Seems to be good advice with no apparent downsides in my case apart from the clocks and player which can be sorted out easily.

The security system automaticaly resets itself.

marshbags

P.S.

I want the charger to booster the battery up occasionally and I,m looking for one that has an indicator that measures the strength of it, similar to ones back in the U.K.

There were no chargers in TESCO, Big C, Macro, etc. Global had one for 1,400 baht, a lot bigger in size than the one I had in the States. I found chargers in several stores on the Phosri Road west of Macro for 1,500 to 1,700 baht, but even bigger in size than the model carried by Global.
Decided to buy a new battery as prompted by Old-Timer; had an excellent experience. A small store on the main road in Nong Som Rong sold me one for my TOYOTA Vigo (3.0L), Panasonic 80A for 2,600 baht. It turned out that the owner lived in our village, so he could bring it to our home after work, and replace the old battery. Otherwise, I would have had to bring the old battery to a store on my MoToCy, or would have had to try to have the truck jump-started and driven to a store. I thought that is a good idea for road service that is very common in the States. Here in Thailand is shouldn’t cost more than few hundred bahts for this service and that would save a lot of hassle to a motorist like me stuck with a dead battery. It may be worthwhile to keep his number in your car.
In my search for a new battery, I was also surprised that none of them carried a warranty of more than 1-year. In the States, warranty of 48 months is very common, and several brands offered 66 months warranty.
Marshbag: I had the problem of battery getting discharged when I was away for more than a couple of weeks. The Stateside dealer warned me that the battery warranty would not stay valid against frequent, complete discharging, and nor should I keep a regular charger attached when I would be away. They sold me a ‘trickle-charger’ that could stay connected to take care of the ‘always-on’ items in the car. By the way, the battery that I just bought has an indicator lamp for the charge level.

Ray.Charles wrote:...In my search for a new battery, I was also surprised that none of them carried a warranty of more than 1-year. In the States, warranty of 48 months is very common, and several brands offered 66 months warranty...

When I was in Houston where the summer heat is similar to Isaan but with higher humidity, I never had a battery last much past 2 years as the heat really does do them in. Maybe they get a longer life in the cooler climes further north and warranties work? The only benefit I saw was the federally mandated core recovery which is to stop dud batteries ending up in landfills. If I recall it knocked around 40 bucks off the price of a new battery.

BTW, The wife had to replace the original battery in our 4 year old CR-V about 6 months ago and I was impressed it lasted that long. It will be interesting to see how long it takes the locally made, generic replacement to go tits up.