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02-12-12, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by nopcbs

Your BMW battery was very likley an AGM battery while the RX battery is a flooded battery. AGM's cost much more, but last longer.My 3-series AGM battery cost $175 to replace from a non-BMW supplier...and I looked long/hard and installed it myself. From a BMW dealer, it would have been much worse. An excellent non-Lexus/Toyota flooded battery (84 month) will cost you under $100.

Pick your poison.

- nopcbs

I'll have to Google the difference between the two batteries. [I replaced the BMW's Bosch battery with a Bosch battery that appeared identical, down to the color 'spots', the exact same place for the drain tube, etc..., from Pep Boys.] I thought all batteries, except for the 'gel' Optima kind, were essentially identical.