Prepare a sleigh in the summer - this is not about us :-) - Toyota Corolla, 1.6 liter, 1999

"Again, winter crept up imperceptibly!" In which year :-) The first frosts (-25C), people rushed to buy batteries, wires for "lighting up", all kinds of heaters. And I was no exception. Unable to start the car on a beautiful sunny frosty morning, I thought about a new high-capacity battery. Since I got the real one from the previous owner, it is not known how long ago. Small "Zubr" at 45Ah.
After reading the latest tests "Behind the wheel" (October 2010), I realized that a good battery should at least be expensive. And just do all the batteries are good, while fresh (2-3 years). Still, I stopped at the average, the toad crushed :-) Well, time will tell.

Titan Arctic Silver 62Ah, 2950 rubles. and lead terminal adapters for 100 rubles. After buying a house, he carefully recharged it with Kedro-M. The size of the new one is larger than Japanese. But the seller in the store reasonably noted that there are also European Corollas, and their body in this place is the same. So they have batteries of normal human sizes :-) And indeed, after working a little with pliers with a mounting plate, I installed a new large battery in its original place without any problems!
I also succumbed to the general fashion of employees at my company, the squeak of this season is a blanket under the hood, produced by one enterprise in Chelyabinsk: izomet.ru/index.php?optio...ew=article&id=21&Itemid=2. Competently sewn in different sizes and shapes, quilts made of flame retardant materials with a flame retardant filler. No. 6 is ideal for a Corolla in a "hundredth" body. 1080 rub. The seller and I first measured the hood with a tape measure, then the blanket. And in the end they tried it on already in place.
There are other options to add "isolon" to the hood itself from below, attaching it with clips. And wrap the battery with it. Until the hands reached, and the legs did not reach :-)