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For a few weeks, I've been wondering about the health of the battery in the Boxster. I've been busy and procrastinating and hoping that it was the battery and not the starter. The car has been starting slowly. Turn the key and you'd get "Ruuurrr, rur, rummmm."

Tonight I went to take the wife's Outback out. It's a 2018 CPO Outback with <40k miles. It wouldn't start or unlock the doors with the fob or do anything. I checked and it only had about 2V. I checked the voltage on the Boxster to make sure my multigauge was working correctly, and at the time noticed that besides the battery only showing 12.25V, that the date code on it was 11/12. Holy Moly, the battery in the Boxster is over 8 years old. I decided to go ahead and replace the battery while buying a charger (I just bought one 2 weeks ago, but it's at the property). Now I've got two $65 battery chargers.

The good news is that as soon as I replaced the battery in the Boxster, the starting transformed into how it should be, an instant start after a quick couple of revolutions.

The Outback battery is charging. I'll let it charge and check it in the morning.