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Originally Posted by motordavid
I have parked my '01 3.0 for 5+ months in an unheated garage, (maybe -10 degs F on occasion), every other year for the past 9 years.
I use my old Batt Tender Plus, hooked through a mechanical appliance timer to come on a couple times a week for 12+ hrs. I have it connected to the under hood batt lugs.
Every other Spring, after sitting for 5+ months, it has started on the first turn.
If you don't have a garage, with elec receptacle, all bets are off...if you do, storing a car for a long time is not nuclear engineering. I do it to one of my cars, (Vette or X5), and all 3 m'cycles, every winter with no ill effects simply using 'standard storing methods' and common sense.
GL, mD
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I'm with mD, unless you are storing the car for months at a time you shouldn't need a tender, considering that your battery/alternator is in good shape and you don't have parasitic draw making the voltage very low at startup.
Try the regular gas thing like X5SND said, I don't have the cold snap issues he does when comparing Jersey to Manitoba, but if he says it works better in the extreme temps he sees, I believe him. In Jersey I can run 93 year round and its fine, even with the frigid winter we saw this year with temps in single digits fairly regularly.
But other than that the only vehicle in my garage that stays on a Battery Tender Junior (plug in receptacle version) with ring terminals affixed to the battery is my '11 Triumph Thunderbird Storm, all my m'cycles have always been hooked up to a tender when done riding and while storing throughout the winter, they start up much easier and the battery life is increased significantly.