TickTock
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So I've had my new Lizard pack installed for 8 months now and it has seen one full Phoenix summer (from February to now) and am happy to say that it is definitely holding up better than the original. I received my Leaf on May 31, 2011. By October 1st of the same year my gids dropped from the new reading of 281 to the 240's. It recovered a little over the winter but that was just the start of a long downward trend (and much drama). In February this year, I finally broke down and had the battery replaced under warranty. Today, despite being twice as old, the new pack is still reading higher than the original did at the same time of year. Graph below. Blue is original; Red is the new pack. (Note, the first marker at 281 gids on 5/31/2011 is not a real measurement as I did not own a Gid-o-meter. However based on the 100+ mile GOM readings I was getting when the car was new I think it was close to this). It is still degrading (naturally) but at a noticeably slower rate. Maybe there was something to the hype after-all..