[quarque]

I talked with a guy at GM a long while back about batteries and he said almost every company specs a 3-year OEM battery so it should just make it past the warranty. This means that the OEM batteries are the cheapest of the cheap and prone to failure much more often. Of the last 6 vehicles I've had, 2 required new batteries in less than 3 years. 2 out of 6 is pretty bad. And the foreign cars were no better than the American ones.