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I also travel a great deal and have monitored this board for the two plus years I've owned my X. To date I have not come back (18 days was longest trip) to a dead battery, but did have one after a week of 100 mile commutes (it sat for the weekend), so the drain seems to be cummulative.

In my instance the vehicle reported I had opened the doors too much without running the car...I detailed it saturday and it was dead monday, which is something i do every weekend, so it's very strange it showed up suddenly.

I think almost everyone here feels this is an oddity in todays world, and would guess that most of us have had failures at strange moments. My business partner has less then 10k miles on his 2009 and drives 1 mile per day to work, but has never had an issue (yet), so who knows.....

Carry jumper cables, keep copies of the relevent pages of the owners manual (jump starting, manually putting tranny in nuetral, manually disengaging parking brake) and the "red handle" in the drivers door pocket and if someting happens, you'll be OK.

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