I'd also pull the plugs and squirt a little oil around each piston, and turn it over a bit without the plugs in. This is commonly done with power boats that sit over the winter, but they should have oil added to the cylinders in the fall.
You've never been offered a test drive in a new car with a dead battery?
Irrelevant to the question of whether they get started every morning. There are a lot of reasons why a battery might be flat on any particular day.
Leaving open doors, boots and gloveboxes, leaving interior lights on, yard cleaners leaving the radio on when they are cleaning the car... all these things are cumulative and running the car for 5 minutes every morning doesn't recharge the battery sufficiently to compensate for the power consumption over time. Sooner or later, the battery is flat.
So many variables, and then ofcourse you can only charge so many batteries in a day so the chances of finding a dead car on the lot is pretty high.
A 1980 Capri sat around for 2 years. Started up right away. Would have expected a dead battery at least. All was good except for the oil pouring out of the front of the engine. A seal must have gone south in the meantime.
What about the cars in the holding yards? there must be a shit load a new Magnas sitting around in em :)
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