Hyundai: Hyundai Factory Battery Life

I bought my Hyundai Tiburon GT in March of 2003. The battery problems
occured the beginning of this month (August 2004). So that's a about
1.5 years. I do know that the vehicle was sitting in the dealer lot
for about 6 months prior to my purchase. Still, I was pretty
surprised to learn that my battery would run into problems that soon.
To my understanding though, extremely hot weather, as it has been
recently in Southern California, can decrease the typical battery life
down to two years or less. It was a good thing my battery was still
under the two year warranty =). They even replaced the battery with a
higher CCA (700 new versus 600 old). Worked out well for me--in
addition to doing the recent fuel valve recall fix.

John

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The battery in my 1997 Accent lasted 6 years. Pretty good considering the
cold winter conditions here in Norway...

-Oivind-