Leaving the Vette for a Month

[gsmcoverage]

Hi All,
I am not going to be driving the C5 Vette for a month so I was wondering what i need to do to make sure its ok for when i get back.

Last time I left it for 3 weeks the battery discharged and needed to be jumped. Do you need to disconnect the battery at the -ve terminal to stop drain? How will this affect the alarm (obviously wont work) immobilizer and radio?

Thanks all

[ifc63]

gsmcoverage said:

Hi All, I am not going to be driving the C5 Vette for a month so I was wondering what i need to do to make sure its ok for when i get back. Thanks all

Just drop it round at mine for the month - it'll be ABSOLUTELY fine

[LuS1fer]

Buy an Accuguard battery maintainer. About £50. Plug it in and leave it to maintain your bettery at optimum level without any risk of damage.

[viperdave]

halfwits do a maintenance charger at a quite reasonable price that we have used on the vette for 3 week hols with no problems other than the leads aren’t quite long enough.

You probably don’t want to let the battery drain flat as that is a sure way of shortening its life, especially as some corvette battery’s are a bit iffy in the first place

[Gary Z]

I have a battery optimiser for my C4.

Got an Accumate with an adapter that plugs in to the cigarette lighter,about £50 with adapter I think.

www.accumate.co.uk/

[yellowshark454]

Used my Gunson automatic charger for same job for a number of years now without problem (£22 in 1998). You need the model with the permanent float switch