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A charge is a budget. Your diary decides the rate
Nothing happens in a parked car unless you left it happening. The published figures are per charge, and a charge does not know what day it is.
The gap between journeys is the one variable in this whole series that genuinely belongs to the reader. A specification can tell you what a charge holds. It cannot tell you that you work from home on Wednesdays. That is why the figures are published per charge and not per week, and why a month of your own notes will always beat them for planning.
The answer in 30 seconds
My car sits unused for days at a time. Does that change how I run Safar?
- In one line. Nothing runs unless you left it running. Days off spend none of the hour budget, and SOSA publishes nothing about standing, so there is nothing else to change.₹3,999
- The short answer. Nothing runs in a parked car unless you left it running, and a run ends by itself at one, two or three hours on the auto-off. SOSA publishes no self-discharge figure, no battery-cycle life and no storage guidance beyond keeping the unit out of direct sun, so days off change your own hour count and nothing else. Safar is Rs 3,999.
- If you only do one thing: switch it off at the door rather than leaving it to run out, on the days you already know the car is going nowhere.
- Does Safar do anything while the car is parked? Only what you left it doing. The auto-off ends a run at one, two or three hours, so a unit you switched off is a unit that is off.
- Will the battery be flat when I come back? SOSA publishes no self-discharge figure and no battery-cycle life, so there is nothing published to tell you. The ten and thirty hour figures are per charge and say nothing about a week in a car park.
- So does a gap change how I run it? In one way only. The hours you spend are the hours you ran it, so a fortnight with the car parked spends none of them. What a gap does not change is the specification.
The answer, in full
In one respect only. The published figures are a budget of hours per charge, up to ten hours continuous or thirty hours intermittent, and a week in which you do not drive is a week in which you spend none of it. That is the whole of the effect I can describe honestly. SOSA publishes no self-discharge figure and no battery-cycle life, so I cannot tell you what a fortnight of standing does to a charge, and I will not guess at it. The published placement note is the one piece of storage guidance there is: keep it in a cup-holder or a door pocket, and not in direct sun on a closed dashboard. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
What a parked week changes, and the two things it does not
Three questions hide inside this one: what the unit does while you are away, what the battery does, and what the oil does. Only the first has a published answer.
The unit: it does what you left it doing, and no more
Safar runs when you switch it on. A run you set the auto-off against ends at one, two or three hours, and a run you did not set ends when you end it or when the battery is spent. There is nothing published that starts it for you, which is why a parked car is simply a car in which nothing is being spent.
A parked car spends nothing, because nothing is running.
The battery: the question with no published answer
What a 2000 mAh cell does over ten days of standing is a real question and it has no published answer. SOSA publishes no self-discharge figure, no battery-cycle life and no storage advice for the cell, so anybody who hands you a figure for it has made it up. If your own unit comes back from a fortnight with less than you left it, that is worth a WhatsApp message on +91 96192 18531.
The oil: the 20ml bottle, and the only way to know
No oil-consumption rate is published, so what the bottle does over a parked fortnight is not published either. The method that works is the one you can run yourself: mark the level with a marker pen on the day you park the car, write the date, and look again when you come back. Two marks and two dates are worth more than any figure either of us could invent.
Two marks and two dates, and the question answers itself.
Does a long gap change which oil to run?
Nothing published says so. SOSA publishes the nine scents as names and prices, with no strength ranking and no consumption rate between them, so there is no oil that suits a car that stands and none that does not. If you come back to a cabin that smells of less than you remember, the honest list of possible reasons is long and none of it is published, which makes it a question for your own nose rather than for a specification.
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What days off change, and what stays where it was
| What the record says | |
|---|---|
| The hour budget | Days you do not drive spend none of it. Up to ten hours continuous or thirty hours intermittent is a figure per charge, not per week. |
| What the unit does unattended | Nothing you did not set. A run ends at one, two or three hours on the auto-off, or when you switch it off yourself. |
| The battery over a long gap | Nothing is published. No self-discharge figure and no battery-cycle life is published, so there is nothing honest to quote. |
| The oil in the bottle | No consumption rate is published, so no published figure speaks for a parked fortnight. Mark the level with a pen, note the date, and read it again when you return. |
The one habit worth building is the pen mark. It takes a second, it survives any gap in your driving, and it turns a question nobody publishes an answer to into two dates and two lines on a bottle.
“A parked car spends nothing. The figures are published per charge, and your own diary decides how many days that comes to.”
Running Safar around a car that stands still
- Switch it off at the door on the days the car is going nowhere.
- Mark the oil level with a pen and write the date before a long gap.
- Charge it when you come back, not on a calendar nobody published.
- Count the hours you actually ran it. That is the only rate you have.
SOSA car fragrance
Nothing runs while you are away
The published figures are a budget per charge. A diary with gaps in it simply spends that budget more slowly.
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My car sits for days. Do I need to change anything about Safar?
Will the battery go flat if the car is unused for a fortnight?
Should I take Safar indoors when I am not driving?
Does the oil evaporate while the car is parked?
Is there a figure for how long a charge survives standing?
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