Batteries and Acid

[Moorey]

The new battery for the NC31 arrived today from a UK supplier, unfilled and with the acid pack. Anyone else received one like that lately in the UK.,

[K2-K6]

Wet type yes,  but normally I'm using gell which comes ready to go.

It maybe for leaking in transit regs,  ie if they drop the package and crack a wet filled casing versus dropping the acid pack which is quite robust.

[Moorey]

Wet type yes,  but normally I'm using gell which comes ready to go.

It maybe for leaking in transit regs,  ie if they drop the package and crack a wet filled casing versus dropping the acid pack which is quite robust.

I think it is now illegal for them to send them unfilled with the separate acid pack thats why I asked.
https://www.yuasa.co.uk/2018/08/important-uk-announcement-new-regulations-will-change-the-way-motorcycle-batteries-can-be-sold/

[Nurse Julie]

All ours have arrived pre filled for the past 18 months of so due to the new regs.

[philward]

Brought in to cover off the acid throwing incidents a few years ago I think

[Green1]

I only buy gel that way no blistered paint on the bike if it falls over.
I remember years ago while at work a hole appeared in my trouser leg it starter off about the size of a 5 pence peace and then within minutes my trouser leg was almost falling off. After that I lernt not to fill batteries up the night before when your half asleep

[JonnyB]

Julie is right, until last year I working in the UK parcel industry and batteries can no longer be sent with acid separately. I remember when the ban was introduced because because it happened very quickly and caught a lot of folk out,  I'm surprised you did and wonder if it's old shelf stock.

I bought a battery from Halfords at the weekend for the GS500, tiny little thing but it still came in the same sized box as if it would have had acid, I bet they've been through their stock and filled them to comply.