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Mobile Battery Fitting
Bournemouth has two distinct battery problems and it is worth being honest about which you have. Holiday lets and second homes sit empty through the quiet months, and a battery left flat without being maintained will not recover when someone returns. Separately, coastal salt and constant short trips are hard on batteries generally. Either way we need your registration rather than a guess at the size, because the wrong type causes warning lights and early failure.
HOW WE WORK
Stop-start and AGM batteries are not interchangeable, so we confirm the specification from your registration first.
You know the cost of the battery and the fitting before anything is touched.
We fit the battery wherever the vehicle is — drive, workplace or car park.
We check the charging system and take the old battery away for recycling.
THE SITUATION
The car was in a permit bay behind the seafront, and the first thing on the call was not the battery, it was the parking. A resident permit bay is somewhere a van can legally stand, so we were fine, but only because the driver told us which type of space it was. The battery itself was straightforward to diagnose and awkward to replace: it sat under the floor, which on this model means the rear seats come out and the trim comes off to reach it. People are surprised by how long that takes and we would rather say so on the phone than arrive and discover it. Once in, the replacement was a standard fit and the old one went back on the van. The charging system checked out, which matters: a battery replaced without that check tends to mean another call in a fortnight.
QUESTIONS
Yes. Workplace callouts across Bournemouth are routine — we fit at the vehicle and keep disruption to a minimum.
A jump start gets the vehicle running but does not replace a battery that is failing. If yours is old or already damaged, it will fail again.
Once we are there the fitting itself is short. Around Bournemouth we allow extra travel time for traffic on A35 and busy periods.
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