you know how sports commentators will say something like "well he has a no-hitter halfway through the 8th inning." and the very next batter strokes one into the seats?

I have no comment.

 

Ha ha, some of us S owners have to start our cars year round! My OEM batteries last about three and a half years. Honda warranties the battery for the five year drive train warranty period -- at least they did mine on two different S cars.

 

Out here in the heat, the batteries in all my cars last three years. Oce you get 3 yrs and 1 month on them, you better start paying attention because you will get stranded.

I just had the ordeal of replacing the battery in the S. I went to the dealer and bought a battery. The ordeal part of it was dealing with the dealer trying to get the warranty refund on the old battery. I use the Honda OEM battery. They are warranted for 100 months, but they will replace them for free (with a labor charge) if the batteries fail within 3 years.

Mine was 3 yrs and 1 month, and I didn't feel like paying someone $85 dollars an hour to replace the battery. Nor did I fell like jumping my car when it was something like 130 degrees in my garage.

For some reason, the dealer just could not fathom that someone would replace their own battery rather than bring it to the dealer.

 

I guess that's why mine died at about three years, too. Acton isn't as hot as Scottsdale but it was over 100* often in the summer, and then in the 20s and 30s too, in the winter. I never garaged my cars there.

 

If I remember correctly I did buy the gallon container at Walmart on two occasions a few years ago when Costco did not have any in stock. Since then, I have heard even more negative publicity about Walmart including them trying to deny medical coverage to one of their managers that was seriously injured in a car accident. Because of the public pressure brought about by this negative press coverage their finally agreed to cover her medical bills.

 

Here you go,Matt...

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=707781

 

My oem battery is in its ninth year of life and seemingly still going strong. Out of fairness, I only have 31,000 miles on the car and the car spends most of it's life in the garage.

Other than my 1988 Jeep Wrangler and my Fiat X-1/9, I've never had to replace a battery. The Fiat had a faulty voltage regulater (among other faulty parts), and the Jeep was an American Motors product and virtually everything on it broke or went bad at one time or another.

I have had to replace the battery on my garden tractor twice in the 20 years I've owned it, but considering that it sits in an unheated barn all winter and doesn't get started for 4 to 5 months at a time, I don't expect it to last as long as it should or could.

I suppose I will have to replace my S's battery sooner or later. This is an interesting discussion because I've thought that when the time came I'd buy the Optima, but I'm not sure it's worth the money. Especially considering the amount of life I seem to get out of my batteries.

 

I changed my 02 in 09 to a duralast gold top.
Levi

 

I'm on my third on my '01 with 91,000+ miles. The second one was defective, though, and Honda replaced it free.

 

My battery is still the original. Over 7 years old.