When it comes to classic vintage cars or for that matter any age or period of automobile the battery – that is the electrical storage battery – lies as an essential working component of any use of your vehicle. Yet few give their battery a moment’s thought – that is until they cannot turn over or start their engine.

An electrical starter of any vehicle is first and last a battery starter since no system can be any more powerful than its source of energy. In other words the storage battery is the business end of every automotive electrical and lighting system. Just as the most elaborate ignition system is of doubtful value with poor spark plugs, so are the finest alternators and generators, motors and auxiliary devices if your car, truck or Sports Utility Vehicle’s battery is not in top notch working and electrical storage condition.

In the overall scheme of the importance of the components of your vehicle – the simple, unsought of battery wins hands down basically over of all the rest of your auto’s components put together, hands down. Most of the remaining parts and components of your car for the most part have been developed and manufactured to work with minimal care and attention what so ever. It’s a matter of numbers and statistics of how many vehicles will be produced by the auto factory and sold, and those numbers multiplied to yield failure rates. Today’s modern Japanese and North American cars are well known to be much more reliable than years ago – actually not that many years ago when planned obsolesce was the keyword of the American auto industry – which some say laid the groundwork for consumer unhappiness with the product and the successful entry of foreign car makers into the American market in a big and bigger way.

Not so with you automobile’s battery. There is no doubt about it – from the advice of auto makers and experienced mechanics that a car or truck’s battery require a certain amount of attention at regular and compared to other auto components and maintenance schedules , comparatively shorter time intervals. You can bet on it that in most cases the battery is low and even lowest on the list of automotive maintenance schedules of almost all but the most attentive auto owners and motorist.

Usually ongoing attention to the battery and maintenance is not forthcoming or it may be applied at irregular intervals, and with little knowledge nor understanding of basic auto battery care and maintenance. You can bet that the battery in these vehicles suffers, and is degraded in capacity unnecessarily. Yet it may be only in the dead of a northern Alberta wintertime that you as a motorist discover that your battery cannot hold the charge you need to turn over and start your engine in the dead of winter time frigid weather conditions. How unsafe.

Hence it behooves all motorists whether in warm climes or in the colder northern states of the US and our friends to the North in Canada to pay ongoing and regular care and attention to their automobile’s battery. It’s simple to remember.

A little care and attention to your simple car battery can save you a lot of trouble.

After all if you cannot start your engine due to a poorly or non maintained or inspected battery you are not driving anywhere nor completing your travels.

Author Bio: Kirk I Inkster Edmonton Dodge Ram 2500 2010 Alberta Dodge Ram 2500 Fort McMurray Chrysler Ram 1500 Quad Cab 2010