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Originally Posted by Dottore View Post
I have a couple of newish cars to store for 4 or 5 months. The place I want to store them has no electrical outlet, though I could run an extension cable in through a window.

Is there any fire risk in hooking up a trickle charger (unsupervised) for this length of time?

Should I take out the batteries to reduce risk?

Would just unplugging the leads (without trickle-charger) keep them alive for this length of time?

Any thoughts?
For a period of a few months I remove the batteries, store them somewhere away from the cars, and connect them to a battery tender. It's safer and gives me an opportunity to clean the battery area in the car with bi-carb and clean the terminals.
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