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Old 21st February 2018, 19:54   #13
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Originally Posted by SCP440 View Post
As a general rule if the battery goes flat in under a week and you have not left anything on or have a fault it is probably due replacement. Most cars should last several weeks and still start but as cars and there batteries get older this can be reduced.

My neighbour has a 15 year old Fiesta that stays on his drive for weeks at a time unused, he can leave that as long as a month between starts and it always just fires up.
Hi.

You could be right, I have Diesel and a V6, they are also left standing and go back to them after even a couple of weeks and they both start okay.

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