Battery

When it comes to your vehicle, it all starts with the battery. Proper battery maintenance is important for two reasons: First, your vehicle won’t start or run without it. Second, it is the key to the long life of your auto electrical system. If your battery isn’t working efficiently, your alternator has to work overtime…

It’s important for TIGARD drivers to know battery basics. First, let’s talk about which is harder on a battery – hot or cold OR weather. Most TIGARD area drivers think it’s cold weather because that’s when we call on our batteries to have enough power to start a cold vehicle engine. However, heat does more damage to a…

Hello, welcome to Tylers Auto TV. Today’s focus is batteries. It seems like everything in TIGARD runs on batteries. Of course, the batteries we’re most concerned with here at Tylers Auto TV are those in our customer’s vehicles. Just like the batteries in our smoke detectors or TV remote, they wear out and need to be…

Modern vehicles in and around TIGARD run on 12 volt electrical systems. 12 volts is enough to get the job done for TIGARD drivers without having so much power that there is danger of electrocution. But today’s vehicles have more electrical components and do-dads than ever before. This really strains your electrical system, making it hard…

Here’s an interesting statistic for our in TIGARD, OR, drivers: Only 30 percent of car batteries make it to 48 months. And the life expectancy varies by where you live. It ranges from 51 months in extremely cold areas to just 30 months in extremely hot climates. Why is that? It turns out that it’s our modern cars with…

Today’s report from Tylers Auto TV is on vehicle batteries, why they die and what we can do to lengthen their life. Most of us have had a dead battery at one time or another. In fact, it would be very unusual if you hadn’t. You may be surprised to learn that only 30 percent of…