Electric gremlins. . .
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Electric gremlins. . .
I have't use my corvette in a month, it was hooked up to a battery tender, and today i took it out to run some errands, and the seat memory doesn't work and the dash lights are dim and the HUD is low, I drive it for about twenty minutes starting and stopping five times and now everything is back the way it was? How can that happen? 
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How old is your battery? Even if it was on a tender, if the battery is getting long in the tooth the tender can only do so much. Are you sure the tender works properly? Most of what you described sounds like a weak battery. I would also drive it further.
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Last edited by killain; Feb 14, 2009 at 03:44 PM. Reason: addition
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Well obviously something is not right. The battery is not "old" but that does not ensure that it is "good." I would check the voltage at the batter before and after starting the car with a reliable volt/ohm meter. Then, I would check the voltage after the car has set a few days on the charger. Somewhere things are not correct, lots of places to look.
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