This document provides tips for diagnosing and troubleshooting car battery problems. It discusses how batteries can fail due to faulty connections, corrosion, or disuse if a car is not used for over two weeks. Another potential issue is alternator problems that prevent the battery from being recharged. Common signs of a failing battery include the engine cranking but not starting, lights and electronics not working, inconsistent starting ability, and needing frequent jump starts. The document also provides steps for safely jump starting a car and tips for maintaining a battery such as keeping lights and electronics off when parked and not overusing air conditioning.

1. Diagnosing A Car Battery
Problem
Tips and suggestions:

2. A Car Battery:

3. A car battery is a physical reserve of energy .
It will die quicker for the things like disuse, corrosion
and faulty connections.
It needs very large amount of power to turn over an engine
and start a car.

4. Types of Car
Battery Problems:

5. Types
Corrosion
Disuse
Alternator
problems

6. 1. Faulty Connections
Sometimes the screws or bolts which connect
the ports to the cables can become loose and the
whole connection fails and ultimately the battery
will be completely dead because no power will be
going from the battery to the starter.

7. 2. Corrosion
Sometimes that screws or bolts which connect
the ports to the cables can develop a corroded
Connection which will made the whole connection weaker
and therefore it becomes harder for power to transfer from
battery to the starter.

8. 3. Disuse
Letting a car sit idle for a while without using it for
at least 2 weeks or more will cause loss of power that it can
no longer start your engine .

9. 4. Alternator Problems
If the alternator of the car is going bad , then it
will be no longer be able to charge the battery as
a result after driving for some distance the car
will die and then the battery won’t restart the car.

11. 1st Sign
Engine cranks, no start

12. 2nd Sign
No lights , no start, no cranking

13. 3rd Sign
One minute it starts fine , then
Next it won’t

14. 4th Sign
Difficulty with cold cranking

15. 5th Sign
You have Jumped the battery a lot

16. JUMP- Starting a new car battery

17. Follow these steps :

18. STEP-1
Hook up one end of the positive cable
[ RED] to the positive [+] terminal on
the [rescue] car's battery, and the
other end to the positive [+] terminal to
the positive terminal to the dead
battery. Bear in mind the positive
terminal is RED.

19. STEP-2
Hook up the negative cable [-] BLACK
to the negative [-] terminal on the
rescue car's battery, and the other end
to a non-moving, grounded part of to
the unresponsive car's motor
compartment.

20. STEP-3
Make sure e-break is applied on both
vehicles and the transmission is in
park [automatic] and neutral
[standard transmission]. Start the
rescue automobile and permit it to idle
for a couple of minutes.

21. STEP-4
Once the battery starts up, allow it to
run for 5 full minutes so its alternator
can boost the battery. Unhook the
jumper cables from both cars in the
Opposed order. Be sure that you do not
permit any of the open jumper cable end
to link with, as they can build a spark.

22. Some Preventive Tips for extending
your auto battery life :
Maintenance
of the battery
Usage of
the car
Change in
Weather

23. A sudden change in weather may affect
your car battery.
Numerous people get the vehicle from a
particular site and suddenly move to a
different site which is largely Different in
weather.

24. Overusing a car battery will shorten the
lifespan of your car battery .
So keep in mind that your head lights,
stereos are off when you are parking it.
Do not keep your Ac on
for long hours.

25. When you are taking your car for
servicing make sure that the mechanics
checks your battery .
The battery cables and the terminals
must be cleaned as well as maintained too.

27. First choose the group size

28. Decide on cold cranking amps

29. Decide on reserve capacity

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