Battery OEM Mazda or OEM Honda

Honda batteries (at least the normal-sized ones, not so much the little 151R's) are honestly pretty solid.

2014 Mazda 3, about 65k km.\n\n2nd battery only because I left the lights on one time a few years ago and needed a replacement. Nil problems otherwise.

2018 Mazda 6 is going fine.\n\nProbably due for a battery soon as preventative maintenance.

The stock battery in my 2016 Honda died after four years.

Battery on my '22 HRV Sport died within the first year of owning the car. Honda agreed it was defective.

I have two Honda City and the first one had the battery changed after the first year, I knew this wasn't normal and Honda insisted that's perfectly normal.

It all boils down to the idling stop feature, to allow that feature these cars use a specific type of battery, but even then the idling stop completely destroys the battery, on top of being useless.

the stock battery only lasted 3 years. My VW prior lasted 7 on the OEM battery.

Battery died less than 12000 miles. Apparently Mazda is using cheap batteries, as this seems to be a common issue. But I still see others complain about the same thing.

first issue I had was the battery at around 2000 miles, it was replaced under warranty.

Some of these OEM batteries they choose to use are shit.