Disconnect battery when parked?

Slanted Mark4,

LOTS of good info here to believe. Some cautionary, and some to watch out for!

If you don't want to mess with the negative cable when storing, get one of the pictured quick disconnects!

The posters that recommend this on the NEGATIVE cable are more correct!!! Just taking the positive cable off doesn't protect you from dropping/bumping something on the battery hot + lead and causing bad things! Why chance it....be safe!!!!

Even if everything is off, and some (hot) switch manages to fail, as I had happen with one of my cars, you can let the smoke out of stuff and have great regrets! While I was running around the car like a madman on a Chinese fire drill trying to get a wrench to loosen my battery cable, my car was smokin' down...... A quick disconnect on the negative side would have saved the day. It took me 3 extra days to get home on that trip..... (home from Vegas!)

If you have a daily driver, then you aren't going to disconnect every day. But for prolonged storage....by all means, disconnect the negative cable however you choose. Re-programing the clock in the radio and a couple of stations is no big deal......compared to replacing wiring harnesses! IMHO.

Good question!!! Always brings out discussions!
Steve