Full River Battery Under Bonnet

Just wondering if the starting battery is different to the normal fullriver, or are they fine to use as either starting or aux?

Cheers,
Dave

Davo-60 ,, both of my batts are Fullriver 80amp AGM HGL , the HGL is not a dedicated deep cycle battery but a hybrid that sits inbetween with the benefits of a deep cycle and the recharge and "grunt" [cca] of a starting battery ,,

Thanks Axel, might look into that next time, have a fullriver AGM as an Aux and that has worked well so far.

Cheers,
Dave

Must eventually put a heat shield on my 2nd battery on the Navara, similar turbo heating problem, boiled her a bit when travelling up in the desert last year ( 3 times )
Still hanging in there, 2 1/2 years old now and had one seriously hard life,,,,, will do the right thing eventually ,,,

But ill get another one of those batterys, tough as hell !,,,,

Cheers
Bucky

You can be guaranteed that the battery will have a shorter life under the bonnet when exposed to higher temps Greg.

But a typical 30% off several years may not be an issue anyway.

Robin Miller

Robin,

Thanks for the heads up. I will keep an eye on it to see how it goes.
I also made a shield for it, and bolted this to the tray. Not too sure if it will do a hell of a lot, but anything is worth a try. It's made of a piece of aluminium plate around 2-3mm thick.

Greg S