Grand Vitara Dual Battery

[GQAndrew]

Hi There,

Has anyone fitted a dual battery setup in one of the new GV's. Looking at buying a new V6 or DDis and wondered if there are any dual battery configurations out there yet?

[murcod]

What sort of things do you want to use the battery for and how big a battery are you planning on fitting?

I've seen a second battery fitted in the engine bay of an XL-7 (which may have a similar engine bay layout?) but it wasn't a big battery. You could always look into fitting a sealed AGM battery in the rear cargo area.

[Momo]

I doubt there would be enough room in the engine bay, definately not in the diesel. Maybe a non prestige V6 is missing the brake electronics which sit in front of the left strut tower.
However it would suck offroad without the TC i think.

I had to mount my compressor on the crossmember next to the transmission as there is no spare space anywhere underbonnet.
Maybe two smaller batts placed together would work or replace with a $$ battery and some LVC protection depending on what its for.

I still can't get a cargo barrier from Milford yet and the model is 3 yrs old. Good luck in finding model specific setups of any kind for the GV.

[fordy1]

call niel at piranha about a tray for the new gv as he makes the trays and he owns a new GV, tell him tim sent you , plus the owner of piranha is a zook nut

[GQAndrew]

What sort of things do you want to use the battery for and how big a battery are you planning on fitting?

Just to run an engel 40L, maybe for 2 days max. i had almost conceded to the fact that it would have to go in the cargo area.

[fordy1]

piranha just called and i mention the GV and its a no go...... maybe under a front seat but most likly in the boot

[murcod]

Perhaps something like an Odyssey battery (or two smaller ones in parallel?) might be able to be fitted inside the cabin somewhere?

http://www.extremebatteries.com.au/menu2.html
http://www.odysseybatteries.com/

They're sealed AGM batteries so are safe to use inside.