OT - Can car batteries suddenly die?

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember tony sayer saying something like:

There are still battery specialists around in the manner you describe, but they are usually to be found messing around with fork-truck batteries and the like, where it's certainly worthwhile to refurb and repair individual cells.

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Grimly Curmudgeon
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That is what my garage told me when my petrol Rover 45 would not even turn the starter motor. I had left it standing for 10 days, until I could give it a run. I put it on charge for 48 hours and it didn't take any energy out of the charger. The battery was only 3 years old. It was this incident that taught me that you can't expect a calcium technology batter to recover from going flat.

Dave

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Dave

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