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Old 12-16-2012, 11:58 AM
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Anyone have the specs for a replacement battery? size/voltage/amps...etc?

Should i just go to pepboys/autozone? Pepboys says they have a bosch, autozone has Duralast gold, but they have several listed. any preference?

Still have the original battery (yeah, its due) and today car wouldnt start (i was getting some weak startups/cranks earlier in the week)...lights came on though...which is weird..maybe just low voltage? tried jump started it...no improvement, left the cables on for longer, still nothing, then magically it started right up after ~20 minutes.

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'06 525i, 56K mi.
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The battery will lose cranking power long before the lights stop working. Nothing weird about that.
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Group 95R H9 Car Battery for Luxury and Import Vehicles - Rayovac Maximum SLI95RH9, for example. 12 V, 110 Ah, 850 CCA. For my '04 545i, I got mine at Batteries Plus. It was a conventional lead-acid. Make sure yours is not AGM-type. This is quite different, and probably needs to be replaced with same.
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thank you, i appreciate the help.
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