50 mpg or bust.

[JustPassinThru]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

Just out of curiosity...What do you do re the battery? Do you start it periodically (but not drive it)? Connect it to a plug-in charger?... or (IIRC, do what CTScott does when he travels across the pond with his family) Disconnect one of the cables from a post on the battery?

I haven't bothered with it - although when I get the airbag-logic units (putting it off for several reasons) I'll have to cycle the electronics.

I have stored cars and motorcycles every winter for decades. As times have gone on, corrosion and battery run-down issues get less and less. Advancement in base technologies, no doubt - and these are newer items, not old junkers.

This car was stored last year in an unheated shed, and started right up in March. This year I had to leave it outdoors, periodically sweeping the snow off it. I don't expect problems but if I have them, I have jumper cables and dialectic grease.

As I've noticed it, a battery in the tray will ACCELERATE corrosion that is THERE; but in a new vehicle with everything clean and protected, corrosion won't start just from the battery being in there.