Ready When winter rolls in, freezing temperatures and slick roads can turn your daily drive into a survival test—for both you ...

A deep freeze that gripped Ohio brought dangerously cold temperatures and led to school closures throughout the state. It didn't do any favors for your car battery, either. Cold weather might reduce ...

Cold mornings can quickly turn into a nightmare when you try to start your car and the engine just won’t turn over. In freezing temperatures, your battery h ...

Extreme heat can damage 12-volt car batteries in a number of ways, including causing electrolyte evaporation, corrosion, and ...

Determining the cause of premature battery drain need not be challenging if you know where to look. In an ideal scenario, a typical car battery has a three-year or 36-month lifespan, and you shouldn't ...

A dead battery after a couple of weeks could be due to a faulty battery or parasitic draw. Undercarriage washes help remove salt and sand, while spray wax is minimally effective and can smudge glass.

The world's only getting hotter, and you may have heard that temperature affects your battery. So if you leave your car parked out in the hot sun, is it possible that by the time you come back, the ...

Although your vehicle's battery is essential to its operation, it's also easy to forget about—or at least take for granted—when everything is running smoothly. That, of course, changes when your ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Summer has arrived, which means ...