re bmw battery in article apr ra msstate edu vech ra msstate edu craig a vechorik writes if i remember correctly the reason that bmw s come with those expensive and relatively worthless short lived varda batteries is cause bmw owns a controling interest in that battery manufacturer what s wrong with the bmw battery i ve never had problems and i know numerous people that are still using the original battery in there year old beemers the original battery in an year old bmw may be fine mine lasted many years the replacement ah battery from bmw was a disaster the mechanic from comp acc told me that ca would warantee replace the bad one with a new one of the same evil bad batteries and tell the customer if they have problems to bring it back and they d do it again it seems that many of those ah batteries were doa near doa and always unlikely to be going strong by the end of the warantee period on them there was a big batch of bad ones and they replaced them with you guessed it more bad ones bmw switched to a ah battery that has more cold cranking amps even if it has less total juice i switched to a yuasa that has even more cold cranking amps and cost one third fewer dollars neil kirby dod nak archie cbusa att com at t bell labs columbus oh usa if you think i speak for at t you might have more lawyers than sense
