Miata Mailing List: April 1994, Message #49
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   From: Alan Dahl 
Subject: Re: Car Battery & Performance exhaust
   Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 13:49:26 -0400

ssaicich@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Stevan Saicich) writes:
> Apart from the Standard & Costly Miata Battery are there any after market
> ones available.  Anyone have any Details on performance exhaust systems,
> cost and place of purchase.
>
The only aftermarket battery I'd consider using in the Miata is the Optima  
gel-cel battery. This battery is about 1/3 bigger than the Miata's and quite a  
bit heavier but it is totaly sealed and should be OK in the trunk. Cost is  
about $95 which may not be cheap enough to make it worth the effort compared to  
discount prices on the factory battery (you should be able to find a dealer to  
sell you one for 15-20% off list).

Frankly I can't see why there is so much whining about the $125 or so cost of  
the factory battery considering you should only need one every 5 years or so.  
I've had so many problems with $50 48-month batterys that fail in 2 years that  
the savings doesn't seem worth it to me. At $125 every 5 years that's $25 a  
year vs $15 a year for a $75 Sears Die-Hard or whatever. $10 a year isn't a  
huge savings.

FYI: My '90 is  4 1/2 years old with 82,000 miles on it and the original  
battery still works fine.

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