11-28-2013, 02:54 AM
davester wrote:
Cars as a rule don't eat batteries, usage patterns do. For example, if you drive the car only short distances between starts, then the battery doesn't get a chance to recover to full charge because turning the starter motor is a vastly greater load than anything else in the car.
I've run into this lately. Truck could sit for weeks and start up no problem. Now, using it every morning to drop the kids off at school is killing the batteries because of the startup drain vs charging time.