finally removed the viper 5704 alarm remote starter

[rising1000]

I hope this was the cause of my problem of run down battery after 5 days sitting. wish me luck . of course driving 4000 klm a year doesn t help any .

[Canadianbacon]

Congratz! What you doing with it now?

[rising1000]

just sitting in box, do people buy these??

[silverstarmazda]

just sitting in box, do people buy these??

nope, but ill hold onto it for you though :chuckle but yeah, some people do but install is killer

[cody_autolinks]

letting the car sit that long withouth trickle charging the battery is your problem. the system should never draw enoigh power to drain the battery. coming from an installer. youll want a new battery to. After a battery drops below 20% it never fully recharges again

[rising1000]

my only problem is u cannot run a trickle charger in a condo no plugs. car is 2012 . already on my 2nd battery the crooks at Mazda of Toronto just replaced the battery , when I explicitly asked for a parasitic draw to be done. The mazda battery is basically useless. They installed it, and held the car for ransome , either pay the service charge or buy a battery, oh and the service charge coincidently was the price of the battery. it only 1 year replacement 1-2 years 50% at least buying at walmart, Canadian tire , Costco anwhere will give u minimally 3 years free replacement.

[cody_autolinks]

thats so sour... ive heard alot of nightmares dealing with stealerships.

[GSXi]

Good Luck.

But it could just be the crappy Panasonic battery Mazda uses.

[Hotsky]

I dunno about crappy. My OEM battery lasted me 8.5 years. ('05 car replaced the battery this past Jan or Feb).

And 4000K a year? Wow I thought my car had low km when I bought it (under 10K a year). why not drive it around a block a few times every couple days?

No offense at all but it almost sounds like you don't need a car, probably would be cheaper to rent one when really needed - given the price of depreciation and insurance.

If that's not an option for you, if you live in a condo and can't plug in a charger to your car's battery. One option would be buying a marine battery and a charger. You can start/charge your cars battery with the marine. I've started my car that way when it died from the cold (before I replaced it). Started on the first crank.