I recently bought a newish slightly used car 2019 I got in summer of 2020. It is a low end Nissan but has a lot of electronic options , Keyless entry , push button start , back up camera forward sensors heated seats, and more . I bought the car after my old one died suddenly . I had just moved to a small city , not much more than a large town . Now I live close to everything . I am aware off many of the pitfalls of short mile cars. Such as break wear and other things that seem to go before the mileage would indicate, Now on to my discovery. Much to my surpass I go out to start my car after a day or two without going anywhere and the battery is dead. I get a jump and it starts right up. Now it was a little cold in the 20s so it was not the cold. It was as I said a newish car with low mileage. I was puzzled as I did not notice anything I had left on like a light or something. I did some google searches and found out that if you only drive short distances your battery does not have a chance to recharge from starting and of course the more juice it uses for all the other things also slows recharge rate. I move to the small city so I would not have to drive so far and would save some money on transportation and time where I lived before was an hour from anywhere. So now I have learned that my short mile driving to save money drained my battery . The moral of the story keep the battery charged by either driving around or revving to about 2000 RPM for awhile . Just a discovery For me I am not a car guy by any definition.
January 22, 2021 at 09:37PM
