[dragerboy]

Over the last week or so I've had times when starting car for first time my clock resets. Guessing my battery maybe on its last legs.

I've read about Battery Registration and have an old Laptop with Inpa on but I believe if battery is of higher spec I need it coding?

Noticed Halfords do Yuasa 12v Silver Battery HSB019 for £150 fully fitted. Would this include coding from them? Anyone used them?

[rasa bmw]

Originally Posted by dragerboy

Over the last week or so I've had times when starting car for first time my clock resets. Guessing my battery maybe on its last legs.

I've read about Battery Registration and have an old Laptop with Inpa on but I believe if battery is of higher spec I need it coding?

Noticed Halfords do Yuasa 12v Silver Battery HSB019 for £150 fully fitted. Would this include coding from them? Anyone used them?

i.try and ask on here who is near you with a diag tool to do ot,,ie carly/foxwell and im sure you can code/register with inpa

[dragerboy]

Originally Posted by rasa bmw

i.try and ask on here who is near you with a diag tool to do ot,,ie carly/foxwell and im sure you can code/register with inpa

From what I've read you can only register a battery with the above so battery needs to be same spec as one installed. Coding required for bigger or smaller spec battery.

[undecided1]

with even the largest 90 agm battery only costing £165ish inc postage from some bmw dealers not sure why you'd want to fit anything else for similar cost, halfords will not have a clue about registering the battery either. Check what you have now 70/80/90/if agm then just buy the same, if fitting the same will just need a reset so easier and no real coding going on as if changing battery type etc

[rasa bmw]

[QUOTE=undecided1;24192377]with even the largest 90 agm battery only costing £165ish inc postage from some bmw dealers not sure why you'd want to fit anything else for similar cost, halfords will not have a clue about registering the battery either. Check what you have now 70/80/90/if agm then just buy the same, if fitting the same will just need a reset so easier and no real coding going on as if changing battery type etc[/QUOTEill needs registering though doesnt it.? so it can charge a new battery and not an old one,,

[undecided1]

[QUOTE=rasa bmw;24196717]

Originally Posted by undecided1

with even the largest 90 agm battery only costing £165ish inc postage from some bmw dealers not sure why you'd want to fit anything else for similar cost, halfords will not have a clue about registering the battery either. Check what you have now 70/80/90/if agm then just buy the same, if fitting the same will just need a reset so easier and no real coding going on as if changing battery type etc[/QUOTEill needs registering though doesnt it.? so it can charge a new battery and not an old one,,

Yes reset/registering whatever you want to call it, less going on than changing battery type or capacity though.

[nomiS330d]

I fitted a larger capacity Bosch battery which I bought off eBay last year. The seller? ECP!!!! Even with their usual discounts they couldn’t match the price on their own website lol. IIRC it was less than £100. I then registered it with my car using Carly and had no problems with it since.

[undecided1]

Originally Posted by nomiS330d

I fitted a larger capacity Bosch battery which I bought off eBay last year. The seller? ECP!!!! Even with their usual discounts they couldn’t match the price on their own website lol. IIRC it was less than £100. I then registered it with my car using Carly and had no problems with it since.

That'll be a non agm, need to see what is currently in the car really if want least hassle. For not much extra I'd rather just fit a bmw agm personally but not essential to keep the same if you can code it

[dragerboy]

Mine appears to be 90Ah - 720 A
160Rc 720CCA

So If I'm just going to register I need to match both 90Ah/720A or just the 90Ah?

[dragerboy]

https://www.tayna.co.uk/car-batteries/exide/ea900/

Seems to be a match.

[dragerboy]

So quick update on this. Managed to fire up me old laptop with Inpa on. Connects to the car fine but no Power Module shows up which seems to be where Battery Registering is done??

[dragerboy]

Update - New battery fitted, managed to purchase a Numax one with exact spec of my current BMW battery and exactly the same size.

Pretty easy to do but not much space and battery bloody heavy when trying to drop it in whilst holding all the leads and crap out of the way!

Have had no luck registering the battery with my laptop. I have an old system with Cable Shack software on. Inpa works fine but appears to be no way of doing it on there. I have Tool32 but don't know what file to look for. Also has old version of Dis which ones by Virtual Machine, this seems to have connection problems now (it did use to work).

So anyone out there registered a battery with any of the above?

[dragerboy]

Update:

I downloaded BMWLogger free edition on to my laptop. Connected it using my CableShack cable and it seemed to connect fine. Clicked on Battery Registration option and it said was successful although I have no real idea what it did.

Not sure the software is 100% compatible with 330d as when I did fault codes under DME came up with 5 or 6 but no descriptions of faults. I have emailed them about this just in case.