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Does the Heat Affect Car Battery?

What does heat do to your Car Battery? Welcome to Mercie J Auto Care where compassion and craftsmanship come together. I’m Rick Smith, master certified technician. First of all let me just say I am not a chemist so I will just give you my basic understanding of what happens.

What does heat do to your Car Battery? Welcome to Mercie J Auto Care where compassion and craftsmanship come together. I’m Rick Smith, master certified technician. First of all let me just say I am not a chemist so I will just give you my basic understanding of what happens. Heat is hard on batteries, so is vibration. There’s different battery chemistries. There's the standard lead flooded battery that we're used to seeing. There is also AGM batteries and there’s also gel batteries. The AGM and the Gel Batteries seem to last a little longer. Also what a lot of car manufacturers are doing is they’re putting the battery either in the trunk or underneath the seat and by doing that it’s not exposed all the heat from the engine and the vibration. So couple things you can do though on your own, one is if your car has basically an insulation blanket around the battery or it came with one, make sure it’s there that will help keep the battery from the heat. Secondly, those brackets that hold the battery in position are important because if you go over a bump and that battery bounces, those plates can rattle around and break loose so keeping your battery cool and keeping it from vibrating. I hope this is been informational to you. Until next time, safe travels and blessings to you.

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