Car Being Left For 2 Weeks

[agrassick]

Looking for advice please, i'm off on holiday for 2 weeks and the car will be left unused. I was thinking about disconnecting the battery while i'm away to stop it from draining, is this a good idea or are there better options ?

 

[voicey]

Have you got power? If so stick it on a tender.

 

[midlifecrisis]

Either switch off the isolator or charge the battery, both work for me. Sometimes both!

I found that the car will just about last two weeks with the battery connected, any longer and you need to charge it up before attempting to turn over the car.

 

[Ewan]

Should be fine for two weeks. Pretty woeful state of affairs if you can't park a car for 2 weeks without it having a problem.

 

[conaero]

If it was during a hard winter then maybe consider some preventative measures but as Ewan says if it can't hold charge for 2 weeks during the summer then you have an issue that needs sorting.

 

[Ebenezer]

Tempting fate... but I've never had an issue leaving the car for 2 weeks. Seems to depend on whether you have a tracker with a duff battery lurking somewhere. I don't think I do......
Eb

 

[MarkMas]

Looking for advice please, i'm off on holiday for 2 weeks and the car will be left unused. I was thinking about disconnecting the battery while i'm away to stop it from draining, is this a good idea or are there better options ?

It's a QP, not a 3200, FFS. It should be fine!

 

[Wattie]

Should be fine for two weeks. Pretty woeful state of affairs if you can't park a car for 2 weeks without it having a problem.

Agreed, woeful if you cannot.
Cheers Wattie

 

[Contigo]

They do drain batteries but put a new battery on if it is draining in that time frame. I put a new one on the 3200 recently left it for a month and it cranked first time (Bosch S5).

 

[mattjevans]

I just left my GTS for 2 weeks with no problem.

 

[StuartW]

I've gone 3 weeks without any problems so if you have a strong battery and your tracker battery is still strong too, you should be fine

 

[jasst]

Should be fine for two weeks. Pretty woeful state of affairs if you can't park a car for 2 weeks without it having a problem.

Exactly, haven't driven mine for about 6 weeks, jumped in yesterday fired up straight away.

 

[Wack61]

If you isolate the battery you may invalidate the insurance as the alarm won't be on , my insurance specifically says the car must be locked,alarmedand immobilised when left unattended

I'd just leave it locked and alarmed

 

[agrassick]

Thanks for all the tips, i did leave it before for 10 days and nothing when I started it, I did replace the battery so hopefully i'm worrying about nothing.

I have power near the car so might do what voicey said and leave it on a trickle charge.

Thanks all

 

[Devonboy]

Thanks for all the tips, i did leave it before for 10 days and nothing when I started it, I did replace the battery so hopefully i'm worrying about nothing.

I have power near the car so might do what voicey said and leave it on a trickle charge.

Thanks all

I had some trickle charge leads fitted to the spare posts on the battery - so now I t just sits on trickle when not in use.....well worth the £70 for the CTEK charger and leads etc

 

[agrassick]

Just thought I would update on this, I didn't get chance to fit a charger before I went away so took the chance and left it for the 2 weeks, as you all correctly told me it was fine, started first time. Guess the trouble I had last time was down to a faulty battery.

Fingers crossed it continues okay, thanks for all the advice.

 

[Devonboy]

Mine to fired up first time after 2 weeks - QP Sport GT S