Battery maintenance - charging (what do you recommend)

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Diz

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Hi all, stuck my battery on my friends battery charger and it was down to just over 40%.

What chargers do you ecommend for charging / maintenance....manual recommends Part 69928471A, Im looking for alternate options?

Thanks
 
Who McLaren?
I’ll sell you the same one with an official Duc decal on it for less than the 4RE one

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maybe OP should upgrade to a lightweight battery and then buy the appropriate charger for it
 
Let me be clearer. Apologies.
CTEK is what many major luxury car manufacturers use. Rolls-Royce, McLaren, etc. buy CTEK and rebrand it with their name, then up charge for it. To me, if it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for me. For what it’s worth, I also bought CTEK comfortably based on lots of other positive feedback on the forum.

I have two CTEK tenders that I really like and with which I’ve never had any problem. YMMV.

That said, I’ve also had Deltran Battery Tender Jr. and never had any problem with that, though I have read about others who have.

I have no affiliation whatsoever with either manufacturer. I’m just sharing my experience. I would buy CTEK again but if I wanted to save some money and found a Battery Tender product that suited me, I’d try that too. I do really like the CTEK Powersport charger I highlighted above as it is made for motorcycles and will handle both lead-acid or lithium batteries. You tell the tender which battery you have and it applies different logic to accommodate. It seemed like a no-brainer as I currently have a stock battery but envision getting a lithium sometime.

Sorry for any confusion. I hope that helps!
 
Let me be clearer. Apologies.
CTEK is what many major luxury car manufacturers use. Rolls-Royce, McLaren, etc. buy CTEK and rebrand it with their name, then up charge for it. To me, if it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for me. For what it’s worth, I also bought CTEK comfortably based on lots of other positive feedback on the forum.

I have two CTEK tenders that I really like and with which I’ve never had any problem. YMMV.

That said, I’ve also had Deltran Battery Tender Jr. and never had any problem with that, though I have read about others who have.

I have no affiliation whatsoever with either manufacturer. I’m just sharing my experience. I would buy CTEK again but if I wanted to save some money and found a Battery Tender product that suited me, I’d try that too. I do really like the CTEK Powersport charger I highlighted above as it is made for motorcycles and will handle both lead-acid or lithium batteries. You tell the tender which battery you have and it applies different logic to accommodate. It seemed like a no-brainer as I currently have a stock battery but envision getting a lithium sometime.

Sorry for any confusion. I hope that helps!
I like the flexibility to use if I upgrade to lithium later
 

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