Reccomend a .. Battery Drill

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Standard Ni-Mh Makita batteries do get tired, I kill them within 2 years. I always upgrade with 3Ah as opposed to the standard 1.5Ah batteries.

If you go for Lithium Ion batteries, they are much better technology,

They don't suffer from "battery memory" which is when they start to get a shorter life from never being fully discharged (they start to only charge the % of use that gets discharged)
But you pay A LOT more for Li-Ion battery gear.

I never buy second hand as Screwfix tend to do cheap deals every now and then (18v makita £80 offer finished now though )

Drills I have killed include, home base, black & decker, B&Q, Milwawke(sp?) and a few Hitachi sds type