HOWY

Hi just wondering if it is ok to leave a MY05 WRX for a week without driving it. Am going on holiday and wonder whether the batteries are ok its a new car so hopefully it should be ok but would welcome any info about how long people have left cars without probs. In aprticular I'm wondering if the alarm/tracker will be OK.

wwp8

when i left my my01 for 2 weeks it was struggling on me,


"eh ehe ehehehehehehehehehheheheh vroom"

ps it died a few months later

skoda_kid

Howy, simple solution mate...leave me your keys and il ensure it gets started once or twice during the week

wacky.banana

Buy a trickle charger from Halfords and leave the battery on charge. Make sure the charger is one of the "intelligent" types that will close down when the battery is fully charged else you will come back to one fried battery and the smell of rancid eggs that you will never be able to get rid off!

Gutmann pug

Not being funny but if you cant leave a 2005 high volume production car for one week without it not starting when you turn the key then its a bag of ****e.

Go away enjoy your holiday and dont worry about your car.

Gary


ps,leave the trickle chargers to the people who drive TVR's only in the summer and others who dont use their cars for weeks and weeks on end

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

Well said

1 week shouldnt be a problem for your car

Tony

davyboy

you'll need leave the car on axle stands, and do an oil change on before you use it.

Floyd

iTrader: (9)

Are you two joined at the hip (Gary and David)? Or a double act?



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davyboy

.....just amused by the same stuff

shaunywrx

I've just consulted Pslewis, and he assure's me the maf sensor will fail, if you leave it for one week.

rossyboy

iTrader: (8)

I left my MY93 for 2 months inside in winter and it started first time when I decided to use it again. Not a cough, not a splutter. Like it had been used the day before.

They knew how to build em back then

Gutmann pug

stone him

Floyd

iTrader: (9)

Do you want a fight? Let's take this outside or do it in the ring, oh wait a minute that’ll be at the ‘Ring in Aug! See you there!

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Gutmann pug

I'll be there the last couple of days in August and the first few in September too.... If you're there then im sure we can get amongst it

I'll have a crack in the pug first and if that dont work the scoob will have to make a special guest appearance. Have to be early on in the week though as the brakes will be juddering like manic things after a day or two poxy heavy jap crap

Gary

patkin

Erm....3 days if it's a Euro Import

Manners

Just left my 02 WRX for three weeks on superlock at Heathrow and started first time.

sonicsuby

I've left my '03 sitting for as long as two weeks before without problem. At least I don't think my fiance drove it while I was gone....

No, I'm kidding, I know she didn't - I checked the mileage

ru'

My 05 WRX was abandonded for 18 days when I went away; started like normal upon my return.


If you get bored of the power and handling of your scoob, rent a dodgy american auto barge for a couple of weeks - makes the scoob feel like a WRC car!

Oh, but I don't have a tracker fitted just the standard UK alarm etc.

Yorkie

My My04 STI only comes out of the garage ay weekends. Sometimes its there for 10 days in the winter. Every time I go to start her she fires up with no problems.

Gutmann pug

My push bike fired up straight away when I left it over the winter.

fastfrank

unless your battery is the same size as a Spec C matchbox one :-) hehe

HOWY

Hi just to say no problems left for a week started first time. Ps saw a WRX in New York which looked like a Yellow Cab but wasn't (good disguise)

VWscooby

A week? hmmm

My car rarely gets driven during the week and is fine. If you can't leave a car for a week then its a bad situation. I would only worry after an month or so.

If I were you I would panic bout it getting nicked

phelpsa

My dad's old elise didnt used to start if you ran it for 100 miles, turned the engine off and tried to start it again it was so bad