OK, time for my rant on Die Hard batteries. When I got out of college, I used to go through car batteries fairly quickly. I don't know why. My father-in-law is a big Sears fanatic, so I starting replacing the batteries with Die Hards. I've never had a Die Hard that lasted the full warranty period. I'm convinced that they use the warranty to suck you back in for another battery. "This battery's still under warranty, I'll just take it back to Sears."

I don't know if it's still the same, but back in the mid-80's the warranty was full replacement for the first 90? days and a prorated "credit" after that. The prorated credit was not a linear value, it was more of an inverted exponential value. The last year or year and a half of the prorated credit was nearly worthless.

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Mike Heath
1988 560SL Black/Palomino
1988 300SEL Black Pearl/Burgandy
1984 500SEC Anthracite Grey/Palomino