I had to jump my truck the other day after shooting a video for KZfaq and ever since my battery has been a bit weak so I think it's time for me to retire one based off slow cranking and old age. What about you guys? Are you noticing any of these symptoms? Comment below!

Seeing most of the warning signs you just listed. Thanks for the taking the time! Appreciate it!

Great video, thanks. My car is definitely showing slow cranking and slow windows and slower blower motor.

I live in OKC & we just recently had a bad winter storm. Thanks to that storm my battey in one my cars went completely bad. I tried charging it numerous times & it was in critical condition. Had gave up on it & just got me platinum battery from NAPA auto parts for both cars. They work really well on extremely cold weather.

I had indicators lights and dim blinker light come on when I turned on a/c... super weird! thanks for the video!

This was awesome. I had every symptom. Interesting about the car charger! I have that one and never take it out. Actually 2. Thank you! Now a new subscriber.

Very helpful! I didn’t realize charging plugs pulled that much energy! Love the Whataburger tent and that Aggie ring by the way! 👍👍

My 2005 impreza, whenever i would turn my turn signals on, my headlights on, any mechanical things on the interior on, it would cause the car to sorta shut off, the speedometer would go off and the radio would to, this was helpful

This guy has good advice. I only knew 2 of the 6 advices

This was very helpful 👍🏼

Dude you might have just saved my life. My car has been dying every time I turn it off ever since Thursday . I had to jump it every time . And I smelled that egg smell it was terrible . Then today it finally just went this afternoon. Would crank and then 10 seconds later died. And lights flickered / all that . Ima try and get a new battery tomorrow . I’ll update you

HEADLIGHTS NOT AS BRIGHT!! 🔦💡Great video

We were driving at night with the heater and radio playing, when we flip the turn signal on, the battery light comes on, and the radio shuts off. The battery looks like a fossil.

The low coolant light started blinking even though I filled my car with adequate coolant. I think that was an early sign that the battery was failing. Thanks for the video.

My car just died and I just noticed my 3rd party phone charger was plugged in and I didn’t notice. Thank For your help!

TIME TO CHANGE YOUR BATTERY 1. Checking time of purchase of battery or taking note of purchase of battery 2. Check for the short clunks when turning on the car. 3. Check for dashboard signs - for blinking symbols - (windows going down slowly, car chargers, lights not drawing power, extra cables) 4. Raise the hood and check the battery for any signs of corrosion. Try cleaning, test and make the right decision. 5. Bulging or swelling of the battery in any of it's sides. 6. Any weird smell from the battery - egg like smell or smoke like issues from the battery.

That helped out alot!! Thank you!! I think I need a new battery!..

Very helpful sir. Thanks.

A weak battery will make the alternator howl or whine. That's its way of screaming in agony as it tries to charge a weak battery *and* supply all the power needed for the vehicle.

Very well explained 👏 👌

My car won’t start unless I pop up the headlights I left the key in the on position while I changed the timing belt it wouldn’t start until I pushed start it could this be my issue? Or a ground issue?

Can the weakened horn sound tell me if the battery is about to die? Cause sometimes when I lock my car it sounds weak

Hi i have audi a6 2007 the battery is low and the ac blower is not going. if i change or charge the battery will it work?

I mark the date on the battery when I install it and after 4 years, it gets changed regardless if it's acting funny or not. Four years on a battery is decent. I don't want to be stranded somewhere at 10:00 pm at night because the car won't start. I like to do it on my time and in my garage...not some parking space in a mall or restaurant. Good Video!

I had a problem with my vehicle I noticed that she was having a hard time turning over twice in the past cold weather I had in Winnipeg or had to get up first just got a new battery was wondering do you think that could just be the issue

Mine caused weird stalling while driving at low speeds or idle. Strange because it would always restart right back up. Felt like a bad fuel pump. Changed the battery and everything is fine now.

I started my car a few times and it immediately died. It started again and was fine. It’s been doing this a couple of times a week. I replaced the battery but now the check engine light is on. Everything is still fine. Any ideas? Thank you. It’s a 2016 Chevy Malibu LT

Super helpful dude

Thank you very helpful!

appreciate this bro

Thank you, Andrew!

@mikekastanek4711 what ended up being the issue with the starter ?

Where do you find diehard batteries these days with Sears going down?

Today my car battery just died without giving me any warning. When i tried starting the car it just went i had the battery for almost 3 years so i knew it was the car battery. A guy who helped me jumpstart it told me it could be my car key but it turned out to be the battery.

My battery's gauge went from half to quarter and it struggled with starting my truck.

Yep, I think my battery is dying, my phone charger has been acting weird, and the aux display on my radio keeps changing to NA when I try to listen to music from my phone, and I have to keep changing it back. The lights turn on, It sounds like it might start, but no engine start-up. How does one distinguish this from a faulty ignition switch? This video really helped, it kind of points toward a battery issue. Thank you for this info.

Could surging while driving ?

I woke up to a dead battery. So I charged it and checked the voltage. 12.6 volts. Car ran great. Got home and tried to start the car and nothing. Dead again. Charged it once again and let the car go to sleep. I've been checking the voltage once an hour for the last 7 hours. Holding steady at 12.6. When I open the door and wake up the car the voltage drops 2 volts immediately. I'm thinking at this point that my battery can only hold voltage with no draw at all. Any draw whatsoever... even just opening the door and waking it up causes the battery to immediately lose 2 volts... enough to not turn the car over. I've looked for a parasitic draw and found none. No added accessories at all. I never use it to charge anything. Do you think my battery is shot? I do. Thanks for the help buddy!!

My Duralast battery was only one year and 7 seven months old and I started experiencing slow cranking. The battery was only registering 12.28 volts after sitting overnight. I tested it and it said to replace battery. Need less to say that will probably be my last Duralast battery I ever buy. The production date on that Duralast battery was 4/18.

Hey, my car having issues right now right before I have to leave for college… my lights are dim in the inside and my headlights but these are brand new headlights. Also, it sounds like it want to start but can’t. I just hope it’s the battery nothing more because yeah when I was driving my battery light came on but then came off so yea

Thanks for the video Would using bluetooth drains the car's battery? I know silly q

The Bosch battery in my car is about 2 years old, and I started having problems with the ABS acting up randomly, especially when I used the headlights or turn signals at high revs (I drive a manual, BTW). The odometer and radio display would even flicker a little. ABS was fine according to the mechanic, but I had some electrical issues that needed fixing (several trouble codes showed up), but the problems cropped up again recently. A few weeks ago, I got the battery and alternator tested and they were fine, but needed charging. Got the battery charged up at O'Reilly and so far, no problems. Didn't cost me a thing, either! I probably need a new one about a year later.

I basically had the same problem with my battery. Last month when I was on my way to the store, my car died so I got my multimeter out and I checked the voltage on the battery and it was 9.7378 Volts so I thought “what the heck is going on with this battery”, the next thing I knew I seen some smoke coming from the tips of the battery terminals. I was suspicious on what was going on and I couldn't believe it because this battery was only barely 16 years old which I consider fairly new in today's society, so basically what I want to do is try to clean up the battery with some soap and salt solution and then I might put it on the charger for two or three minutes at a high current rate just to see if it will hold a charge. I'm not sure if that's going to help the battery or not but one thing's for certain before I go out and buy a new battery, I'm definitely going to try these two methods that I suggested. Now on the other hand I could swap the battery out with one from my 1962 Chevy Tahoe but I'm not sure that my old lady would let me do that, so basically what I need to do is first, I'm going to check all the air in the tires before I monkey around with the battery. Then I'm probably going to run a few errands around town down and the next thing I want to do is get some paint and paint the battery terminals because I don't think they look very good without the neon yellow color look on them. If all goes well, I am planning to do a few other things to the terminals. Next after that chore, is get some of that distilled water and pour on the outside of the battery to try to clean up a lot of the dirt and dust its accumulated over all these years. If I have time what I'll do after that it's try to clean both sides of the mirrors on my 1965 Ford Bronco because I've noticed while I was driving that it's hard to see what kind of traffic is coming up behind me. I was having a problem with the battery when I put the headlights on low beam and then when I tried to switch the high-beam I noticed that the voltage excursions were jumping around so I went out and I bought another set of test leads to use on my digital multimeter and there was no difference at all, so I think I may borrow my friend Tony Jones's multimeter just to check those voltage excursions to see if that is normal. Nobody really explained to me how to test a DC voltage excursions when the battery is not in its prime. I am all on my own doing this. A lot of people have contacting me and they said that they've had that problem once or twice and maybe even three times in their lifetime with their batteries but they did something totally different. What they did was loosen the terminals first then they carefully remove the battery and hoisted it out to get rid of all the debris and dirt that's accumulated after all these years then they put it on a slow charge which I believe they told me was 32 milliamps for 6 days, 3 hours and 54 seconds. Next they took the battery caps off and added some distilled water, which they claimed that they bought it at their local Walmart store. I think, if I can remember correctly, they said it was .99 cents plus the sales tax. Can you believe that just 99cents? That's a real good price for one full gallon of distilled water. Speaking of water, yesterday I helped my neighbor that lives to the right side of my house, fill their swimming pool for the new season. It literally took 7 hours to fill. I am not sure how many gallons it is. I have met people in my lifetime that had no idea that there were 4 quarts of water in a gallon jug. They just assumed it was a gallon only. I am not really good at math but I do have a calculator on my cell phone. Speaking of math, it takes me back to grade 11 in high school when my teacher, Mr. Lowry gave us a sneak quiz on algebra. I failed it because I didn't understand what that was all about. I spent most of my high school time stoned and kinda out of it. Some of my classmates were very good at math, and it even showed when they got their report cards. I may have gotten of the path of whatever we were initially talking about. I think it had something to do with blue cheese. No, I remember now, it was car batteries. I never could figure out why they put car batteries in the front of the vehicle and not inside the vehicle. It would be so much easier to work on them, especially in the rain, if they were inside the vehicle. Doesn't that make more sense to you too? Well anyhow, batteries are pretty heavy for their size and some people can't lift them very good. I had a fried, Tony Smith who had asthma and once he tried to lift out his car battery, and sneezed, and the battery fell out of his hands and landed on his right baby toe. It broke the small bones in that toe of his. I called his mothers step daughter Ann but she was not home. So I then called his brothers uncle Fred and told him about what just happened to Tony's toe. He seamed like he was drunk and started laughing at me and said “I don't care about that Bast#$ds toe”. I got mad and hung up on him immediately. From that day on, I never spoke to Tony's brother's uncle Fred. I never really liked him in the first place bacause when Tony and I were 13 years old, we were at a softball game and Fred walked over to us and farted right in our faces. That was not very nice of that old pervert. I heard some stories about him when he was about 20 years old that would make you cringe if you heard them, but I can't get into that right now because I have to finish up my posting here on you tube. I hope I have given you folks some good advice on having some of your problems solved in a timely manner. I like to help out when I can if it is at all possible. I am out for 3 more hours so I want to go now and get a hot dog and a bottle of grape soda. I need to look around for a ride so I can get back to my padded room at the Sinclair Insane Asylum. I hope Dr. Dilbert will not be mad at me for sneaking out....

I still have the original battery which is more than 10 years old. It does not have any symptoms described in this video. I am debating if I should replace it. I am not cheap, but I just hate to throw away things that work well.

One thing I can't understand car manufacturers doing today is electronic keys that don't work when the battery inside them is dead, I can't imagine getting stranded because you don't have a spare button cell. It's ridiculous imho.

cigar lighter outlet should not have power supply after turning off engine (car key out), or does that little thing draws power even with that situation??

Really good video. Thanks for sharing. May God bless you and yours in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen and Amen and Amen and Amen.

Hey, I’ve been confused but do you know why my trip meter miles rest to 0?

Thanks 👊

My corolla has had the same battery for 10 years, finally it is struggling to start and I am gonna change it next week.

I have a 2010 honda civic and i bought the battery on september 2018. Now every 2-3 hours i need to jumpstart the car. I called AMA twice and they said that my battery and my alternator are good. So what could it be?

Is a sign when u hit the brakes and the headlight flickers once than it won’t do it again until you hit the brake after u take off again

Why is the check engine indicator on even after starting?it should come off right?

Mine shows the battery symbol and when I try to crank it all the things on the cluster will go dim then glow back up and then go back dim? Would that be a sign?

Would it cause my heater/air conditioner blower to stop blowing air? My battery is 5 and a half years old but it's turning over fine but the air conditioner blower doesn't work.

About the sulfuric smell, can I smell that even when car is not driven? like in the morning? Or the smell only comes after driving it? Well last 2,3 weeks I noticed a smell only AFTER I drove the car, it's from the hood area it smelled like light clutch burn smell, but I didn't burn the clutch. I do need the change coolant and engine oil, could it be the smell of those 2 coz the fluids are too old????? (also battery is 3.5 years old, first 2.5 years I rarely drive it, then I put the battery tender on all the time, maybe battery is dying but I kept charging it so that's the smell?)

2:33 I thought if the battery light comes on, it means the car is running off the battery and it’s probably the alternator that died

Yea I find out today to not charge my phone and listen to music through Bluetooth while the engine is off 😩

I brought my 06 Yukon XL in May 2019 and now in 2020 and I have a slow crank and it not starting up and I did smell something bad 😷 could I have a weak battery or should I charge it or replace it I can lock and unlock my doors light are on my dashboard lights are dim

My battery still starts good . It’s leaking and only at 9 volts when running and 8 volts when i tested it in the morning. Will that be the reason why I have hesitation on throttle? Not enough volts to the computer?

Your instr. panel looks exactly like mine and cranks the same as mine

thanks man my truck barely starts now I’m gunna get a battery check in the morning

Got a 96 GMC truck, cranked over but clicked an showed no power after that. Tested it in another truck started fine, I'm assuming starter fine cause it tried to crank an fire up. So am I looking at a alternator issue?

My car doesn’t start at first crank until second time sometimes you think it could be the battery or something else?

I think my battery is kaput, it is about 6 years old and we have had really warm weather recently and cold starts too and car has been playing up so time for a new one, 98 BMW E36 323i.

I was told do not buy Exide Batteries….they are a manufacturer FYI.

Very Helpful! When I charged my battery because it was completely died. I jumped it ran fine. Then when I turned it off and started it again it was died. And the lites were dim.

eight year old battery in my BMW and no early signs of issues, but few days ago the car wouldn't start. Auto repair and AAA both said battery is holding amps, but then later on the auto repair place said it was indeed weaker than it should be, so changed it out. Car ran fine for 2 days, and then same problem back again. Now appears to be a probable Starter issue. So, could the battery and starter both have essentially died together? I realize I got my monies worth with the battery, and I'm not sure how old the starter is, but maybe just replacing things at certain pre-set fairly long intervals proactively is not such a bad idea. Like one other commenter said, it's hard for some of us to part with functioning items while they are still working.

Corrosion on the terminal means the battery is undercharging.....

I have a car battery but i purchased it for the purpose of powering my inverter at home bt i realised it has started to loss it energy to power my inverter

They told me my battery was bad about a year and a half it’s still running but I can barely see at night now dim lights

I just got a new battery cuz mine wouldn't start the first two times I tried last night but then ended up starting and starting right up tonight as well, but I didn't want to take any chances as I bought the car used 3.5 years ago and had no idea how old the battery actually was. My heat just has been blowing out cold air forever, so I'm wondering -- and hoping -- the new battery might end up helping to solve that problem?! We'll see cuz I'm driving quite a distance tomorrow, and it's going to be cold as hell here in Chicago too, so fingers crossed.

What about a loose terminal?

My explorer got new battery new alternator and the batt light doesn’t shuts off what can be?

" freezing " storms , rain storms .

I think I have a problem with my car battery bcz it hard to start in the morning when it was off the whole night

If I leave my USB cables plug in, will it draw power as well?

My radio went out for like a month or so i thought i blow a fuse than about a week ago it came back on. I also had slow starts lately or times where it wouldn't start at all. Only had my car a year but i guess it's just a bad battery. Getting a new battery tomorrow.

My main symptom for a weak battery is slow starter crank.

I had no signs at all. I went to start it and got clicks inside no start. Had the battery checked and they said it's went to battery heaven. No battery sign on dash. I just changed my fuse for the cigarette outlet and I did leave the charger plug in the outlet. Dang! It shouldn't have killed it all together though. 😫

Brotehr u Didint add the dim lights. If the lights don’t go on or nothing goes on. ? Yes tahts a sign of battery

Your check engine light stood on 😱

are you trying to tell how to tell a bad battery or what drains a battery?sooooo confused.

Dang man I’ve had my car for 5 years and I bought it used. The battery is old as crap

I cringe at the lack of letting the fuel pump turn in

I want to subscribe but I dont want to ruin the 666. Btw, very helpful bro 👍

Noticed battery was sluggish starting, I was going to replace soon but it didn't wait...soon as i noticed the symptoms within hours it died, luckily when i got home. Ugh..more money

My car takes about 5-10 seconds to start. It’s been that way for a couple months! If it was the battery wouldn’t it have died and left me stranded a while ago? Bcus it’s been that way for like 6 months 🤭 Hopefully I can buy a new one before this happens to me...

I had that egg smell :/

Batterys dont last now adays

Gig Em "

have you even seen a buffed out battery..holy grab never seen one,,anyone..

11.6 mpg sucks

11.6 mpg 😐.. No wonder this planets F**ked

Mmm, not so helpful. Load testers and induction gauges are much more accurate in determining state of batteries.

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