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Jun 19th, 2018, 19:29 | #1 |
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Long periods between using the car.
I am having to go abroad with work.
Be about 4 months in total. Leaving the car on a trickle charger is not an option. If I get Mrs M to use it once a month for a decent run to properly warm it up will that be enough?? Any other issues I need to be aware of? Are the Volvos batteries robust if left for weeks on end?? Thanks.
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Thanks for the replies.
I’ll keep updating but the plan at the moment is to get Mrs M to drive it to work (about 10 miles of mixed roads) once a month. She knows not to leave bird poo on the car and has promised to wash it off if she finds it but I don’t expect her to wash the whole car routinely (not sure I’d trust her!!!). It’ll give me a great excuse to get it properly detailed and ceramic coated when I get home!!
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My 940 estate stood for nearly 4 years with a quick run round the block every 6 months and a trickle charge I put it back on road a few weeks ago, passed MOT no probs. A quick polish and all fine. It was garaged fo its off road time.
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Persuade Mrs M to take the car to work at least once a week, it will help her to become very familiar with the car as well as get value from the cost of the car.
Only risk with this strategy is that she might the car so much that she will not let you have the use of it when you return....
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Once left my D5 parked for 4 weeks, and no issues upon my return. Car started fine, and Stop/Start was soon working too.
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It depends on the vehicle, we did a similar thing when we lived in the US, the qashqai battery went flat at some point in the first 3 months...consequence doors unlocked, radio satnav required code to reset, trickle charged it over the weekend and it was back to normal, ready to sit for another few months.Yaris was fine, but not as much electronics on board.
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