I was watching a recent episode of Motorweek and Pat Goss had a segment on battery maintenance. He stated trickle chargers are a no-no for stored vehicles, they will ruin your battery by overcharging. He recommended a battery maintainer which shuts off automatically when the battery is fully charged. It cycles to keep the battery fully charged without the risk of overcharging. My S is now in hibernation mode, anyone seen a battery maintainer locally or do I have to order from Griots Garage ?

 

Motorcycle shops are usually a good place to start.

 

Gary is right. I got one for my motorcycles years ago from Bow Cycle. I now use it on my car when I go on vacation. It works great. Charges up the battery slowly and then will shut off. It samples the voltage several times a second and when the voltage drops below a designated level, it turns itself back on.
Mine is called an Optimate:

Other good brands - "Battery Tender", "Intellicharger".

 

C'mon Brady, buy blackS2000's tires and come do doughnuts with us.

 

I think Asif's old car would go into ventricular defibrilation if it ever went outside on a winter's day. That little "weiner" in the exhaust pipe would shrivel up to nothing.

 

Brady,

This is the super-popular battery tender that's used by all the motorcycle guys. Blackfoot does sell them:

http://batterytender.com/product_info.php?products_id=2

Chris.

 

Though the car might approve of the doughnuts, if they were of the Tim Horton's variety (Gawd, Asif's gonna shoot me next time I'm in the city of Cows!!!)

 

I just couldn't do it. My 911 was alot of fun in the snow. If not for the ridiculous maintenance costs I may have kept it instead of buying the TSX for winter duty. It does suck knowing I will not get to wind the S out until the spring. I still have to break it in (3186 KM at the moment). Tim, I think Daryl told me you can get your hockey gear in the S, where do you put your sticks ?? I think you are able to maximize the S2000's limited utility better than anyone else.

 

What else do I need to say. I did find a ding on the car that Asif somehow missed. I had to show him. It is now gone through the magic of paintless dent repair. I think Asif thought I was trying to pull one on him when I told him the pampered S had a boo-boo.

 

Thanks for all the info. I will check out Bow/Blackfoot for one.