12-10-2015, 11:50 AM
I've had no end of issues with Bosch Silver batteries and wouldn't touch them with a barge pole, particularly on anything that wasn't in regular use. From what I can tell they seem fine on anything that's used regularly, but put them on anything that gets used more sporadically and allows the battery to partly discharge (or do something silly like leave the lights on so the battery goes flat) and the Bosch's just die and never recover the ability to take/hold charge.
Personally? I would just buy whatever comes with a decent warranty from a local supplier so that in the unlikely event it does fail you can easily get it swapped out.
That's what I used to do after the Bosch fiasco where I had three die on me within a few months, and I never had another failure even on no-names batteries. That said, for the last few years now I've been using a stockpile of batteries that I've removed from cars that I've broken and the only ones that have given me grief doing that have been - yep you've guessed it - Bosch Silvers....
Personally? I would just buy whatever comes with a decent warranty from a local supplier so that in the unlikely event it does fail you can easily get it swapped out.
That's what I used to do after the Bosch fiasco where I had three die on me within a few months, and I never had another failure even on no-names batteries. That said, for the last few years now I've been using a stockpile of batteries that I've removed from cars that I've broken and the only ones that have given me grief doing that have been - yep you've guessed it - Bosch Silvers....
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