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Originally Posted by m6-lt1
Look up how to put the car in transport mode and ask your neighbor to do it for you. It will last a while before the battery dies when it’s in transport mode.
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Originally Posted by Staves
Good idea. Thanks. Should I put it in that mode now or wait a few weeks?
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Originally Posted by TP2SS
You can wait a couple weeks and have your neighbor start and run the car for 20-30 minutes. When they do that, they can put it into TM on the startup.
It's simple. Turn the hazard flashers on; foot on brake; press and hold start button, even after engine starts. Takes about 10-15 seconds and it'll display on DIC "TRANSPORT MODE"; let off start button and it's done. Turn of hazards. Do the same thing to exit TM.
While in TM, you WILL see the battery caution light flashing on the DIC when the car is running, but it's fine, the battery is still charging. I winter store my SS in TM in an unheated storage unit, and run it for 30 min every 4 weeks or so. Never had a problem and it's still the original battery in a 2016.
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Unless you can drive the car and get it up to temp, you shouldn't periodically start it and just let it idle. The ideal would be to go put it into transport mode as soon as feasible and forget it until you get back.