Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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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.

The Battery in my father's Diesel A2 is HUGE! At least twice as big as
it needs to be to just start the engine reliably.

It takes a while to find under the boot floors, but it easily lasted the
6 weeks or so he was on holiday the year before last. The brakes
(especially the rear ones) did not survive, a lining became detatched,
but I suspect they were in an iffy condition beforehand.

As it's a VAG, there is probably a way of disabling the ultrasonic part
of the alarm by keypresses or a button inside somewhere, that might
reduce the amount of current it draws? Dunno.

In answer to your original question, never left a modern car without a
battery for such a length of time, but I'm not sure the doors on an A2
will lock without electricity. The boot catch is electric and there
isn't a keyhole in the passenger door, at least there isn't on my dad's.

Any way you can connect up a wee charger to keep it topped up?

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Douglas