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      12-07-2020, 05:13 PM   #26
Peter_R
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Originally Posted by Davy Jordi View Post
so speaking of battery life and checking the health of the battery, because my car is being driven so sparingly, i purchased a battery tender/maintainer and when i first hooked it up about a week ago the battery was reading at 17% which was astounding because i drive the car once a week for about forty minutes, but apparently that's not enough, so the car is now hooked up to the battery maintainer all the time in the garage.
You have just joined the frozen European crowd who all have what we call a trickle charger. When I went away to sunnier climates (Dominican Republic) for 2 months at a time my X3 was hooked up to a CTEK charger for the whole time.
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