You’ve got the kids strapped in the car’s backseat, and have been scraped ice of the windshield. You are already late on it. You press the car’s start button, but nothing happens. It scenario, many danes are risking to be left in over the winter season, which can be hard diet for your car battery.
On most cars, the battery is only 50 to 70 percent charged, and the hard frost can take additional 35-50 percent of the capacity of the battery. It can mean frostkolde mornings with a car that won’t start.
It informs Biltema in a press release.
– Especially the newer cars with start-stop function can cause problems, for they require more voltage on the car battery. Is the voltage too low, there is a risk that the car will not start – also if you for example hold in a cross. In addition to frostgraderne, which reduces the battery capacity, switch on more also for the seat heating when it is colder, which consumes additional battery power, tells the Nis Kornum, who is expert in Biltema, in the press release.
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According to the Nis Kornum you should therefore pay extra attention to the car’s battery during the winter months. He has, among other things, that you don’t with to use for things such as seat heating and the heating of the rear window, because it can drain the car battery.
You can read the good advice in faktaboksen including.
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Get a grip on car battery
1. Test the battery within the frost
Is the battery old, or does it no longer optimum, can frostmorgenerne get it to stand completely. The Test, therefore, the battery in good time before the frost sets in. Let the car stand off for 12 hours, and then use a batteritester to see the battery’s condition and ability to charge.
2. Let the battery up more often
the Battery to use the extra capacity when the vehicle is to be started up after a night with freezing temperatures. Therefore, it is advantageous to let the car battery up one-two times a month in the winter months. It can easily be done at home with a hjemmelader, so you do not have to have in the workshop.
3. Give your trips a check
On the small trips, the battery can not be recharged. In fact, you must like to drive more than 30 minutes before the battery is charged fully up. Are you running mostly small trips, it is therefore particularly important to let the battery up regularly.
4. Avoid too much on enhancements
do you Have both the seat heater, the wipers, the heater fan and the electric in the rear window turned on, when you run, use the vehicle faster up the battery. In fact, you run the risk that it lit the enhancement uses the power, as the batteries charge up on the battery on the car ride. It can result in a car that subsequently will not start. Think about whether it is necessary to have it all turned on.
A previous study, which Ekstra Bladet has told you about, made by the Swedish battery and opladerproducent CTEK among about 1000 Swedish car owners showed that 57 percent of the respondents only checked the car’s battery once a year or typically less. In fact, 45 percent nothing to charge the battery and had less interest in the battery than in tyre pressure and oil level.
the Study from the CTEK showed also, that the whole 39,5 percent have experienced that the car will not start and had a dead battery.
the Cars – 5. nov. 2019 – at. 10:54 Wet autumn gives Danish drivers problems
