Coldcrank Garage

The winter battery & garage manual · Vol. 1

Your battery has a bad week coming. Let's get ahead of it.

Cold mornings are when tired batteries quit. This manual walks through the cheap, do-it-yourself jobs that keep a car (and the mower, the boat, the golf cart) starting all winter.

  1. 01 Test it in five minutes
  2. 02 Clean the terminals
  3. 03 Run the winter checklist

On the bench this month

We read Easy Battery Fix, a digital guide that teaches battery testing and reconditioning at home. It isn't magic and it won't save a cracked or swollen battery, but for tired lead-acid batteries it's a reasonable read. Our full bench test.

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