My original OEM Saab battery on my '01 lasted a decade.

A. Fucking. Decade.

Through so much terrain, bought in MD (around 2006ish), drove to Chicago with a lengthy trip through God knows how many states.

Daily driver for about 4 years.

Took another trip in 2010, ending up in Wyoming and back to Chicago, this car was my first real car and I figured that was a good benchmark for the battery.

Once it died...

I spent a week researching batteries and settled on a Duralast with an "8 year warranty"

It died after 3 and they tried to sell me some shit on it being prorated (something I'm familiar with) and still tried to charge me $110 off an 8 year warranty after 3 years.

I fought my instincts so much, thinking it couldn't be my battery when my OEM lasted a decade.

After getting stranded on a very snowy Sunday night when I had to work the next morning, I had a kind tow truck driver jump me for the last time and he happened to know the Autozone, the place I bought the battery from 3 years prior, was still open.

I went back there and had it swapped out, much to my dismay.

Ever since then I've carried this, because I don't even trust my own battery anymore.

I have an Escort Passport 9500ix wired to ignition and now I shut it off every time I leave the car.

10 years I never worried about that shit, with my new battery I'm cautious as hell.

I have no real point to make other than that damn OEM Saab battery never gave me an issue, it put me in a false sense of security and since then I've had to be an overprepared boy scout every step of the way.

As an aside, this winter that damn jump pack has jumped 6 of my neighbors and coworkers on a single charge without issue, highly recommend. I gotta remember to recharge it this weekend just in case.