Battery Care

Top Tips to Extend Your Battery’s Life:

To get the most out of your battery and to extend its life, we advise you to ensure the following:

• Ensure that the battery is secure by checking the hold down clamp on the car and the cable connections from time to time
• Get Battery World to check your battery’s ‘state-of-charge’ or do it yourself using a hydrometer
• If your battery is an Open Cell Vented battery that has filling caps, you’ll need to perform periodic maintenance by checking and adding distilled water to the cells
• Clean any corrosion you find on cables, clamps or terminals with a wire brush or battery terminal cleaner. Then rinse with ample clean water and dry (preferably with an air compressed gun)
• If you find that your clamps and cables are damaged by excessive corrosion you should have them replaced
• Battery World will ensure you purchase the correct size battery for your car
• We offer free alternator and starter motor checking, have it done regularly

What NOT to do:

• Never hammer cable terminals on to the battery posts. This can damage the battery permanently
• Never Self-Discharge
• Avoid extended inactivity and storage of your battery
• Avoid frequent short trips as your alternator needs to be able to fully recharge your battery
• Ensure your car alarm, sound amplifier, radio standby or boot light are all switching off when you switch your vehicle off, and not drawing battery power unnecessarily
• Avoid high ambient temperatures
• Don’t over crank your starter motor