# Car Battery Charge Maintenance

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-battery-charge-maintenance/932334>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 6, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-battery-charge-maintenance/932334 "2021-02-06T16:01:52Z")\
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A lot depends on how the car is driven. Over here, my two year old C-Max usually gets just short runs to the shops, so the battery tends to run down. This turned out to be the reason that the start-stop mechanism was not working. The battery came with the car, so it should be good for another year or two.

One thing to help with a cold start, that I saw somewhere, is to turn the headlights on for a few seconds and then start.

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