Battery?

[~tc~]

Think my battery is going out after only 2 yrs and 30,000 miles.

Anyone else had to replace theirs?

[KuroNekko]

No issues with my battery in my MY 2011. Going out after 2 years/ 30k miles is rather premature. Would it be covered by warranty?

If not, I would get an Interstate Battery. When I bought my old Impreza, it came with an Interstate Battery in it. Nearly 10 years and 100,000 miles later, I sold the car with the same battery in it. It never failed me once.

Interstate is also from Texas.

[murcod]

The battery in our previous Mazda 6 lasted just over 12mths - which just happened to be the warranty period on the battery.... The actual vehicle warranty was 3yrs.

[~tc~]

Apparently, battery warranty is only 24/24,000 - I was over by 6000 miles

Dealers price was competitive with Sears DieHard Gold.

FYI - DieHard Platinum (made by Odyssey) is the best battery out there, period. It's the only thing I will use in my trucks which have extreme electrical needs.

[Ronzuki]

The batteries they put in suzukis aren't the best. We had to replace the one in our 08 SX4 after around 2 years. I was rather surprised at that as well.

Second the Sears Platinum (as long as they don't switch manufactureres). A lot of the 4 wheeler crowd rate them high even for winch duty.

[murcod]

It could be a case of the original batteries sitting around (eg. at the Suzuki factory, during shipping of the vehicles etc) in a semi discharged state. That will shorten the life of a wet cell battery.