Car Battery Maintenance

Without a car battery can not be operated. Most of the life of the battery reaches about four years, depending on the weather, and how you use the car. The wrong way to make the battery last breath faster.

The simplest way to maintain the battery without having much effort is to keep it clean. Most commonly in the treatment of battery keep moisture, dirt, corrosion, damage to cables, connections loose. Moisture and dirt are potentially invites corrosion. So how do I start a treatment? It is not as easy as using a handkerchief.

First and foremost is to not smoke when performing maintenance on the battery because the sulfuric acid in the battery generates hydrogen gas which is highly flammable.

Disconnect the negative terminal first. After the positive cable to be cleaned off using a fine wire brush. If no, you can use an old toothbrush. Do not forget to clean the battery poles. This process will result in residual dirt on your hands.

Before proceeding, you should wash and dry your hands. After that clean the body also battery from the remnants of residue to clean with a lint-free cloth.

Give a layer of fat (grease) to the terminals and thin poles of the battery to prevent the recurrence of corrosion that can impede the flow of electricity into heat and make the connection.

After that check the terminals and cables as a whole to identify other potential makes the life of the battery becomes shorter. If all is fine, the last step is to reinstall the cables.

Tighten the positive battery terminal first, then attach the negative cable to prevent electrical shock that can damage electronic components in the car.

After all is installed and make sure nothing is missing, you are ready start the engine to make sure the battery is properly connected.

Additional tips:

If your battery is not able to rotate the starter motor ditadai start because of the delayed process, should not impose any further because it will damage the electrical components on the starter motor.

Because if it gets damaged, the price of the starter motor is not exactly cheap.

In such emergencies you can menyasatinya by encouraging (if your car manual transmission). If the automatic transmission, you can work around this by 'injecting' additional power from another vehicle battery by booster cable / cable jumper.