{"id":51,"date":"2026-10-01T12:35:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-garage\/why-car-batteries-give-up-on-the-first-cold-morning\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:48:13","slug":"why-car-batteries-give-up-on-the-first-cold-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-garage\/why-car-batteries-give-up-on-the-first-cold-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Why car batteries give up on the first cold morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A cold engine needs more power to turn over, and a cold battery has less to give. That is why the first frosty morning is the busiest day of the year for flat batteries.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the engine has been turning over slowly, ask us for a battery test when the car is in for anything else. It takes two minutes and shows how much life is left.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Short trips do not give the battery time to recharge. A longer drive once a week helps through the winter.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A battery that just about copes in autumn can fail on the first frost. A two-minute test tells you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-garage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-garage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-garage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-garage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-garage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-garage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-garage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-garage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-garage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-garage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-garage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}