Before you heckle me - no I’m not stupid, and under normal circumstances I usually would turn the car off. In this particular instance, however, my car battery died because I was away for 6 weeks, and there’s not enough gas for me to take it on the highway and get to where I need to go tomorrow (after I try jumping the car). Since if i turn the engine off there’s a large likelihood that the car will die and won’t turn back on again, turning the car off while I fill my tank isn’t a very viable option. Can I get away with it one time, or will I ruin my engine or blow up my car?

If it makes a difference - 2020 Land Rover discover (sport). If that’s not viable, what are my other options for charging my car up enough with only <30 miles in the tank so that I’ll be able to also refuel my car without the battery going out?

Thanks!

  • 23monkeyman23@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Normally pretty low, very few of the rentals I drove made it above 30k, the distances driven weren’t very far but the engine hours were really high. They were put in low idle and sometimes left for days without being moved and even if they were they were driven about 2 miles. Frozen brakes was always fun.

    • Beef-n-Beans@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Imagine… You buy a pickup truck with 30k miles but everything is fucked because it has hundreds of thousands of hours. That’s like a yard dog truck, no miles but runs 24/7