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Old 03-12-2018, 12:32 AM   #17 (permalink)
19bonestock88
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Originally Posted by JRMichler View Post
Lesson learned the hard way: If you P&G, you need to trickle charge the battery at least once per week.

If you park outside in the sun, maybe you could put in a solar panel. Set it on the dash, mount it in a window, and plug into the 12V power outlet. You will need to either size the panel so as to not over or under charge, or put in an oversize panel and a charge controller.
I figure this would be a good workaround... the issue had a slow onset and it just slowly became less reliable about starting... I set aside a tank of fuel and now the car is starting fine but I’m now trying to sort out a misfire so no hypermiling is possible right now...
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