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Mrcheerful wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Mate has a new Audi A2 - 1.4 petrol IIRC. Later this year he will be
going away in his camper van for three months - touring Europe. It
will be parked outside his front door in a private road.
Now I'd guess there's no way the battery will last that long. I could
go round there every couple of weeks and start it I suppose - but
what would happen if we just disconnected/removed the battery? I
could keep that here and make sure it was charged for his return.
Thoughts, please.

I would just leave it, it will be fine.

I'm willing to bet it won't. Most new cars have a quiescent draw of around
30 mA for radio memory, remote locking, immobiliser etc. Some a great deal
more. 3 or 4 weeks is about the limit.

But if you want to mess about: leave the battery on, you don't want to
mess about with radios, immobilisers etc. Get him to leave you the
keys and once a month or so go and take it for a drive of a few miles,
10 would be plenty.

I'd probably just run it at a fast idle until the temp comes up to normal
then double that time.

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