the battery for the remote heater blipper (which by the way has incredible range - like, to the moon and back) uses a DL1/3N battery which for those unfamiliar with batteries is a 3 volt cell used in cameras and flashes. Which basically means you can't buy it anywhere (edit: anywhere = supermarket, iron monger)



normal, available everywhere:


DL1/3N, not available everywhere:

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Last edited by rrsboy on Thu Apr 05 2012 3:01pm. Edited 2 times in total

2 pages of them over on E Bay..........

Jim

ohhhhhhhh thats gotta hurt rrsboy  07,TDV8,Black, Black Heated leather all round, Rear Entertainment with Headpones & Remote, TV, DVD, Pure Dab Digital Radio, Sidesteps, Adaptive Headlights, sunroof, now working fuel burning heater )))

not at all... they exist.. EVERYWHERE.. but try buying one in a supermarket, or an iron monger i.e. if you need one. Now. TODAY. The places you buy normal batteries from when you need them NOW.....

nearly impossible

and the more I think about it, why not just string two standard 'cell' batteries together if it's so critical (which I doubt)

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Boots, Wilkinsons and John Lewis sell them................

Jim

Oh yes.....Argos have them too..............

Jim

but not Sainsbury's? who have, literally, an entire battery section including normal 'cell' style batteries?

perhaps if someone can explain the necessity of this particular cell battery in this particular function to me...

(and while they're at it also explain why a lot of the fuses are non-standard too... meaning they aren't available where normal fuses are... Halfords, petrol stations for example - you know, where you go when you have to have them NOW)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance



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Pound Stretcher as well as Home bargins sell the batteries and the smaller type of fuses that the RRS uses  07,TDV8,Black, Black Heated leather all round, Rear Entertainment with Headpones & Remote, TV, DVD, Pure Dab Digital Radio, Sidesteps, Adaptive Headlights, sunroof, now working fuel burning heater )))

shakeapaw wrote:

the smaller type of fuses that the RRS uses

yes, they do.. how about the other fuses (the sqr ones that amongst other things sit on the headlight circuits....)?

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2007 TDV8 HSE - superb car and very reliable
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Ive never seen them, so ive no idea, i just assumed they would be the same size
now wouldnt that would be a silly idea, having them all the same size  07,TDV8,Black, Black Heated leather all round, Rear Entertainment with Headpones & Remote, TV, DVD, Pure Dab Digital Radio, Sidesteps, Adaptive Headlights, sunroof, now working fuel burning heater )))

I bet you could get them from a dealer now, like immediately when you needed them (not on a sunday) Mike

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and certainly not on Easter weekend  07,TDV8,Black, Black Heated leather all round, Rear Entertainment with Headpones & Remote, TV, DVD, Pure Dab Digital Radio, Sidesteps, Adaptive Headlights, sunroof, now working fuel burning heater )))

or saturday afternoon Mike

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or even after 11.30am  07,TDV8,Black, Black Heated leather all round, Rear Entertainment with Headpones & Remote, TV, DVD, Pure Dab Digital Radio, Sidesteps, Adaptive Headlights, sunroof, now working fuel burning heater )))

rrsboy...did you try Super Drug, Homebase or B&Q...........they also sell them

Jim