Since the battery in these cars is under the rear seat you have to be more sure than usual for safety reasons that the battery won't leak. For that reason I decided to go with the OE battery and from the local dealer it was $120 (not bad I think).

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2004 VW Jetta TDI (manual)

Past MB's: '96 E300D, '83 240D, '82 300D, '87 300D, '87 420SEL