Thread: Optima Battery
View Single Post
  #10  
Old 09-17-2004, 04:22 PM
lino's Avatar
lino lino is offline
Registered ®
 
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Canada
Posts: 981
Quote:
Originally Posted by mpolli
If you are going to store the car for 4 months then put a trickle charger on it and/or remove the battery as has been previously suggested. Complete discharge = death to any lead acid battery. Even deep cycle batteries are only resistant to this up to a point. This is the most important thing to know about lead acid batteries. Keep them charged up and they will last a long time. If you let it go to zero then it is a goner.

MP
Thank you for the advice. I intend to buy a Battery Minder or Battery Tender.
__________________
1989 300CE Astralsilber/Schwarz
1992 300CE Schwarz/Schwarz
Reply With Quote