Reset Password
If you've forgotten your password, you can enter your email address below. An email will then be sent with a link to set up a new password.
Cancel
Reset Link Sent
If the email is registered with our site, you will receive an email with instructions to reset your password. Password reset link sent to:
Check your email and enter the confirmation code:
Don't see the email?
  • Resend Confirmation Link
  • Start Over
Close
If you have any questions, please contact Customer Service

Your Quarantine Automotive PSA  

New2Midlo 54M
666 posts
4/12/2020 4:23 pm

Last Read:
4/13/2020 6:29 pm

Your Quarantine Automotive PSA


For those who have been not out and about for several days at a time, there's yet another thing you should be aware of. That's your car's battery. Nothing will kill a car's battery more quickly than very occasional driving.

I highly recommend either a battery tender or, if circumstances don't allow for one, take your car for a ten minute spin every days. That will allow the electrical system charge the battery back . I can't recommend the Battery Tender brand enough. I bought the battery in the Porsche within the same 3 month period as my daily, except it lives on its tender. Thing is still going strong.

Being a car guy, I should have known this, but didn't think until the battery in my daily driver shit the bed. It was in its twilight years, before self-isolation, but not quite ready go into the great battery beyond. However, not being driven regularly allowed its charge to dip further and further each time I drove it. I've had it on a tender for the past two days and it won't rise from the dead, like Jesus did on this day.

New2Midlo 54M
1075 posts
4/12/2020 4:24 pm

So something that your battery will get a charge out of.


Gettingweetterin 33M

4/12/2020 9:49 pm

Thanks for the info!


Sjdjeekdfkdksksd 31F

4/13/2020 6:11 am

Nice ty!


Paulxx001 67M
22642 posts
4/13/2020 5:38 pm

My starter blew, about three days before all this shit hit the fan. Three days after the fact (and after the repairs were effected), I was grateful it blew when it did.
Now... about taking my winter tires off their rims and putting on the summer ones...
Hmmm... 🤔


Become a member to create a blog