The Mk6 Golf Battery Thread

[The_Hawk]

What a coincidence!

I thought I had replied to this the other day saying that my 2011 era battery was still going, although living most of it's life on the CTEK because it's driven so infrequently. I was also going to say that I should pull out the multimeter and check just how far down it slumps on cranking these days since it seemed a little sluggish to start despite having been on the CTEK and only having started a handful of times running back and forth the other day...

Then this morning I went out to go to work, went to unplug the CTEK and noticed it was still sitting on stage 3 of it's charge cycle (meaning it hadn't yet reached 80%)... after 3 days...

It clicked a little, but turning the auto lights off got it cranked (just) and it fired up so I could drive it to the Battery World on the way to work. They installed a new battery in no time and got me on my way to work. While I might have liked something other than the in house YUASA brand, it's the appropriate size and comes with a 30 month warranty so I'm sure it will be fine, especially in my application.

[tonymy01]

I just replaced mine a few days ago too. ~August 2011 complianced Golf R, bought Jan 2012. The original battery only lasted 2 years, so back then I put an AGM Yankee made battery in (Federal AGM Exact Fit Din66 Tall Case 9AGM48 in May 2014), lasted the past ~5.5 years, I don't drive the car much (car is over 8 years old <50K on the clock, sometimes will go 3+ weeks without a drive) so the battery really cops a hammering. Has been slow cranking the past year, but I throw it on the CTEK MXS 5.0 charger quite often. Went to start while out last Friday and it didn't crank, decided this was about time to get a new battery (it cranked on 2nd attempt thankfully. I have been resorting to roll starting if I park on a hill just to avoid having the starter motor hit it hard, this is one of the nice things of owning a manual car).
I was tossing up between these two as they are both on special until 1st March (Hi perf DIN65 Century Batteries from Supercheap Auto >$50 off RRP)-
Century Hi Performance Car Battery DIN65LH MF | Supercheap Auto
Century Overlander 4x4 Battery DIN65LHD MF | Supercheap Auto
Ended up getting the Overlander as it is isn't that much more expensive than the Hi Perf and is partially AGM so can probably deal with the deeper cycling that I put the battery through with having a Blackvue camera with parking mode and not always getting it fully charged on each drive. Also is a bit more robust compared to the 1st option.

So nice to be hearing it doing fast cranking again, haven't heard that sound in a few years

[The_Hawk]

Your usage sounds about the same as mine. Late 2011 car with 37K and change at 8+ years old. Same CTEK too, although I dont' have parking mode on my current dash cam.