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focus Batteries
batteries
Richard Barnett on
batteries and how
they must be seen
as an all-year-round
product
Battery sales have
always been a reasonable
cash generator
for workshops,
but it used
to have a downside: Sales
spikes in the winter, with the
rest of the year comparatively
quiet.
Luckily sales have flattened
out: there’s still a sudden
demand increase come
the first cold snap but batteries
can now fail at any time
in the year, a result of so
many more features of a car
requiring electrical power to
function.
The UK battery market
has also seen marked differences
in quality, with
high-quality units squaring
up against batteries sold on
price and very little else. The
rise of start/stop technology
has changed the market’s
make-up, and low-quality
batteries are a non-go in cars
so equipped, but cheap batteries
can, much to the frustration
of other brands, still
find a place in workshops.
Banner Batteries, how-
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- Not just for
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