Car battery during the pandemic

[jred721]

Typically you would only worry about battery issues when you're leaving your car sitting for couple weeks or more. 6 days shouldn't affect anything and the car should start right up. But agreed with other people, you clearly bought the Si because you wanted a fun ride so it wouldn't hurt to give it an italian tune up and take it for a nice drive once in a while. That way you can assure your car is getting it's breathing room and also avoid any potential issues with the battery.

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[vtecr]

Keep in mind that it'll typically take about 15 mins of charging to replace just the energy used in cranking the engine, so a 30min drive is only adding roughly 15mins of charge to your battery. It'll need more than that to have any worthwhile level of charge. If it's sitting in cold conditions then it can lose power more quickly, especially a battery that has had more wear.

Another thing to be careful of, if your car has stop/start then it'll have an AGM battery. It may even have an AGM battery if it doesn't have stop/start (I can't say with any certainty what other markets come with). You need to make sure that the battery charger you are using is compatible with AGM type batteries. Typically the cheap ones aren't and you could damage your battery by using them.