{"id":4013,"date":"2021-12-22T10:54:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2021-12-22T10:54:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T21:54:11","slug":"telltale-signs-you-need-a-new-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/telltale-signs-you-need-a-new-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Telltale signs you need a new battery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your battery is the part of your car that is responsible for it starting and running. If you don&#8217;t have a battery, and you don&#8217;t drive a manual, you don&#8217;t have a way of starting and running the car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A battery is an expensive item, it&#8217;s also critical to your car&#8217;s electrical system, mainly to your ignition and starter motor. If you are asking yourself &#8220;why won&#8217;t my car start?&#8221; It might be time for a new battery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some signs your battery is on its way out<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice the inconvenience before you realise anything else. There&#8217;s a raft of electrical issues that will crop up letting you know that it&#8217;s time for a <a href=\"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/battery-replacement\">battery replacement<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You drove the car yesterday, but it won&#8217;t start today. Your alternator is spun by the engine and runs the electrics when the car is running, it also charges the battery at the same time. If you&#8217;ve driven the car for a reasonable amount of time and then parked it up for the night, only for it to not start tomorrow &#8211; it might be time for a new battery. As a side note, you could also have an electrical draw, that would be worth looking into.<br><\/li><li>The starter motor clicks and doesn&#8217;t turn the motor over. This means the battery doesn&#8217;t have enough cold cranking amps (or &#8216;juice&#8217;) to turn the motor over. The battery is therefore not holding sufficient charge to power the starter motor.<br><\/li><li>The indicator light shows that you need a new one. The easiest way to diagnose a failing battery, by far. Nearly all batteries have a little window on the top that indicates, based on colour, the current state of the battery. If it says you need a new one, even after a long drive, you need a new one. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How long does a car battery last?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Believe it or not, batteries last longer if they&#8217;re used often. If you leave a car sitting without a trickle charger, they run flat and this degrades the material in the battery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Generally you should get 3-4 years out a battery but 5 years isn&#8217;t rare either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to make your battery survive longer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If leaving the car for a long time, you&#8217;ll want to leave it on a trickle charger. Make sure to charge the battery regularly, try not to let it drop below 40% charge, this will keep the materials inside the battery tip top. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need a new battery then look no further, we&#8217;ve got you covered. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/booking.myautoshop.co.nz\/flow\/79d9ef22c06f1e8df3b59812f130e6c29fb28a90\/productselection?type=Services\">click here<\/a> and we can get you sorted cheaply and easily. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your battery is the part of your car that is responsible for it starting and running. If you don&#8217;t have a battery, and you don&#8217;t drive a manual, you don&#8217;t have a way of starting and running the car. A battery is an expensive item, it&#8217;s also critical to your car&#8217;s electrical system, mainly to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[248,296,19,163],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-battery","tag-battery-life","tag-car-battery","tag-car-electrics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}