Elan M100 - replacement battery

Elan M100 - replacement battery

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JonRB

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76,106 posts

279 months

Sunday 19th October 2003
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The battery on our Elan has been getting progressively worse, discharging after only a day or two since charging.

I picked up a replacement battery at CostCo - a nice Bosch Silver which the handy booklet said was suitable for the Elan M100

Only trouble is that once I got it home I noticed that the Lucus battery that is in there already is rated as 620A Cold Crank, whereas the new battery simply states 480A / 62 Ah.

So simple question - is the new battery up to the job?

lotusnobles

731 posts

259 months

Sunday 19th October 2003
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Just checked mine, its 600A so cant help you really

JonRB

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76,106 posts

279 months

Monday 20th October 2003
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This link is pretty informative. Seems that a 480 CCA battery is specified for the Elan SE but a 600 CCA is also specified.

So that would infer that the 480A stamped on my new battery is CCA.

However, since our Elan isn't used much in the winter and it doesn't take a lot of current to turn over a 1.6L 4-cylinder engine anyway, I reckon I'll just see how I go with this battery for now rather than taking it back for a refund etc etc.

Edit: Thanks for going to the effort of checking your battery for me though!

>> Edited by JonRB on Monday 20th October 12:45

lotusnobles

731 posts

259 months

Monday 20th October 2003
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So sounds like there are 3 recommended batteries for the Elan, mine must be the middle grade