I bought a yellow-top optima gel cell from les schwab in Orchards
Washington. They highly recommended it and so did everyone else I talked
to
at the time. I'm sure they're pretty good batteries but apparently I got a
bad one. I bought mine for a vintage 87 RX-7 with less than 64k original
miles on it. I purchased the car as an investment (you rotary heads can
appreciate that) and I wanted the nicest battery available and paid over
$200 dollars for it. I drove the car 1 - 2 times a month to work and back
and kept it garaged (heated all year around) and after 22 months the
battery
developed a short in one of the cells. I took it back to les schwab and
the
only thing they would offer me was a $79 dollar credit. On a battery that
I
expected would last several years I figured I had the real deal. Turned
out
I had to take it in the shorts because les schwab insisted that the car
sat
too long and that's what caused the short. On the 1 - 2 times per month
that
I drive the RX7, the car gets started 4x each day (includes lunch-trip)
and
is driven 60 miles round-trip. Anyway, I obviously feel ripped off. ...and
les schwab has crappy customer service! They told me that this rarely ever
happens. If that's so, why didn't they just give me a new optima battery
and
send the bad one back to the manufacturer? I'll never buy one again after
that experience and I will tell everyone I know the same story!
