Finally, we replaced Plume’s full battery set: One Lifeline Starting (GPL-2400T) for the engine and two Lifeline Deep Cycle (GPL-24T) for the house. This is a big news, because the batteries have been sitting in their cardboards in the garage for several months.

While Lorenzo did replace the house batteries 10 years ago (the exact same models), this time he was reluctant to get started given how heavy the batteries are and how challenging it is to place them in their dedicated box in the engine compartment… without mentioning removing the old ones.

Finally we decided to put our son to contribution (for the price of a Boba tea:-). Below is a picture of him devising the best strategy to do the job. Thanks Son for saving our backs!

New Batteries

Battery on the left already prepped by raising it with a series of blocks. Just one last huge effort combined with enough agility to follow the right path! Note the “plank” to help with the manoeuver.

Technical note

  • House batteries:
    • 25.5kg (56lbs) each
    • 160Ah in parallel
  • Startign battery:
    • 24.1kg (53lbs)
    • 870 CCA
    • in retrospective, the smaller model would have been plenty and much easier to fit, but we just went with the original choice we made 16+ years ago