On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:27:58 +0100, "dennis@home"
wrote:

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The battery may have been old but otherwise functional if used within
it's normal constraints (like not leaving an interior light on
overnight).

Its normal to be able to leave all the parking lights on overnight, not
just one interior lamp.

Normal for how many people, here (even) for example?

What are you going to do if you have to park on a road with other than a
30mph speed limit which requires parking lights?

Hope you don't need a jump start in the morning?

I haven't said that it wouldn't drain a faulty battery.

It wasn't a faulty batter, it wasn't a battery at 100%, like many
batteries aren't. It was able to cope with it's *normal* day to day
duties, just not an extreme case, just like many 'not new' batteries
on many perfectly otherwise functional vehicles.

At what point off 100% capacity would you consider a battery to be
cr@p, 50, 75, 99%?

Well the stop start stops working at about 75% so that's faulty.

Interesting. So in colder climes (were it hits -15 DegC) you would be
replacing the battery pretty often then?

http://support.rollsbattery.com/supp...acid-batteries

Do you think they last forever?

No? Why did you think you needed to ask?

They are consumable items like tyres.

Well, they are consumable items that's for sure.

Cheers, T i m