well welcome back to the Steve Rob shawl today it's going to be part 2 on the video I did a
little way back maybe a couple of weeks about changing your car battery and how to test it
today I'm not going to show you how to change the battery there's lots of YouTube videos on
how to change a battery what I'm gonna do is share some real-life experiences on what can
go on when you change your battery and don't realize the effects that it could have to your
vehicle mostly to modern vehicles not all modern vehicles but yeah cause a big problem I'll first
start off will go back about 10-15 years when I worked at my friend's auto parts store and we
sold a ton of Interstate Batteries and every fall the first cold cold cold day yeah we were swamped
with people coming in saying they needed a new battery and they would pick up their battery and
away they go and then they come back and it was always the batteries not working right or you
know there's something wrong with a battery and guys a lot of times it was their alternator or it
was their starter and everybody's trying to save a buck by diagnosing everything themselves and
the car will start automatically the thing it's a battery so that's where YouTube is really great to
learn how to diagnose it properly and yes even the ones that were had a bad battery some people would
bring their battery in I would test it for them and say yeah the batteries no good they take out
a new battery go home while they come back ever since I put the battery in my car's been doing
this my car's been doing that well I'm telling you you never heard so many stories in your life but
one thing we surely learnt fast was you just can't throw a battery in anymore and a lot of these
vehicles and the first one was a Nissan Maxima the fella come in got a battery went home took his old
one out with no one in guys it needed to throw we learned to go back to the dealership because
that's just the way the Nissan's were back then I guess but I'm gonna show you a product that I use
I've had this for over 15 years easy and this is it here I still got the original box everything
else like guys this is a great product and this is it here you know and it's very it's very
simple you know you turn it on you know it's got the light that shows if it's on or off this is a
really decent rechargeable battery that's in here I've never had a problem with it I charge twice a
year that's it guys and at the end here you have like a really nice long cable and this plugs into
your data link connector which is underneath the drivers usually underneath the drivers area of the
seat you know under at the bottom of the dash there but some are in the center console some
are all over so I mean you'd have to check your owners manual to find out where it is guys I I
recommend this is the only way you do this this is the only way that I do it I don't like using these
power ports or cigarette lighters and that kind of stuff because a lot of people get confused between
a power port and a cigarette lighter and you know they try to plug it in and you don't have the
ignition on and it doesn't energize the power port and of course it's not going to save your memory
and then you know I got some people using like a little 9-volt battery kind of stuff and they open
up their door kills the battery and of course you lose your memory by the time you know you change
the battery but this is the way that I do it and guys it comes with a nice charger this is the
charger and the cord so you can also leave this on for like extended periods of time you can just
plug it in and like if you're say a shop owner or something you could just go away for the weekend
and keep the car energized I imagine you know because this would be plugged in to your service
and keeping this battery energized so this is the way that I like to do it is pretty foolproof
I'd like to hear if anybody else has any better ideas on a better system but so far I've been
using this a lot of vehicles and I've never had a problem so far I guess there's a whole bunch of
different types of products out there you see the big booster packs you see all kinds of different
ways so when you look on YouTube yeah you will see a whole various type of things that you can
use to maintain your battery but yeah today the electronics on the vehicle today I recommend you
go to your garage and have them change the battery properly if you have any shortcomings at all if
not you can check out a product like this you can take a look in the link below I'll leave a
link below if you want to check it out and see what it's all about but guys this here for the
money first time you have to go to the dealership and get a throttle body relearn or anything else
it pays for itself once but I know a lot of people are gonna ask me ok so what kind of battery do you
recommend guys I really did like the Interstate Batteries when I first start selling them but
as years went by I really you know I'm not a professional on batteries guys like don't get me
wrong I'm not professional batteries all I did was sell them but yeah over the years I noticed the
interstate they came out with so many different class of batteries that unless you bought the
highest rated battery yeah you might as well have just gone to Walmart as far as I'm concerned but
uh you buy what you can afford that's the main thing right ok so I'm gonna show you battery and
it was $119 by the time I was finished with tax I didn't bring back my core charge they charge
ten dollars at Costco for the core charge some places charge twenty bucks but yeah it's ten
dollars at Costco up here in Canada so I think it worked out to like a hundred and forty five bucks
something like that by the time I finish with the tax and everything I'll show you the battery
okay so there we are right that I just wanted to show you you know that I did get a battery
part and that's going in tomorrow so yeah I recommend like I've said before don't wait
until your battery dies on you because it's really not worth it I mean for you know the money for
this battery and I got a 2010 f150 that is going into I've got more than my service out of that
battery from the factory I guarantee you I never I never thought that battery glass that long but of
course I vote and I tested every once in a while so yeah so now it's time to change it and I feel
comfortable in changing it so I just I'd mentioned this product here which is just terrific I don't
know if there's a better one out there as far as I'm concerned and you decide on what you want to
do but if you have any qualms at all about doing a particular service on your vehicle I always highly
suggest seek a professional because I have seen so many badges go on when people who don't know
what they're doing try to tackle a particular I would say easy job like even changing a battery
sometimes there's stuff there that a professional technician will know that the general public does
not and yeah for the amount of money you're gonna pay unless you're you know real handy
and you're up on things and like I say YouTube is a great learning experience to learn about
how to do all these things you can look through my my playlists I've got some top notch you know
technicians on my channel and I recommend that you take a look at their channel and see like I
really don't see too many guys going out of the way to show how to change a battery on YouTube
because it's fairly simple but to tell you the truth it can be fairly complicated when things
go sideways on you so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this channel
you're quite welcome to subscribe come back again guys let's have some more fun chairs