My '66 beetle sat for 2 weeks, battery worked fine. fixed accelerator cable ( it was broken ) and tried to start it... DEAD. Jumped it- started right up... let run for 1/2 hour. next morning - dead. jumped it, let run for 45 minutes, drove to work. after work... dead. HMMMM 13.6 volts when running so alternator is good. took battery of unknown vintage to Autozone - since it had an autozone battery in it. tester says its a bad battery. ok, give me a new one. $65 later and 2 minutes to install it... it works great. Funny how just letting it sit for
2 weeks killed it. but I think it was about 6 years old.- posted
19 years ago