New Battery today

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after 8 years the original BMW battery has begun to show signs of old age.

havent had any indications of trouble till this morning, started it up to go to work and the starter turned over a little slower than usual , and then on the dash up came the trans failsafe message.

i let it idle for a minute or two and then turned it off and back on, started fine and no displayed message. went to work all good as usual

called up a mobile battery company and they just changed it out, so now starting it sounds a lot snappier, seems it had been getting a little tired and i hadn't noticed

i wonder if this one will last eight years.

2005 3.0d sport 190,000 km