The Meineke Car Care Center on Paxton Street in Harrisburg will help maintain your car battery.

As you were walking to your car after work, you were thinking about how hot the steering wheel and seats would be after being parked in the hot sun all day.

What you didn't expect was to get in your hot car and find that it wouldn't start. Your battery had died. 

It is probably won't make you feel better but you are likely not the only one. Summertime and hot temperatures are notorious for killing car batteries.

"Summer heat is tougher on car batteries than winter’s chill. It may seem counterintuitive, but higher temperatures have a greater impact on the power-generating chemistry inside," consumerreports.org says. "And it’s not just about air temperature. Hot summer temps drive up the heat under the hood and accelerate the onset of battery failure. As a result, many motorists wind up stuck along the roadside in the summer. AAA reports that it responded to 2.2 million battery-related service calls in the summer of 2020, up from 1.8 million in 2018."

You can take steps to avoid a dead battery. Those include routine inspections, driving the car regularly to make sure it doesn't discharge, parking in the shade or a garage, keeping the battery posts clean, and avoid using the battery to run lights, stereo, or accessories when not on, according to consumerrreports.org.

You can get help for battery maintenance or a replacement battery at the Meineke Car Care Center on Paxton Street in Harrisburg. If that is not convenient, you can get battery maintained help or new batteries at one of the other 12 Meineke service centers in South Central Pennsylvania.

  • Meineke Car Care Center - Pleasant View Road, 331 Pleasant View Rd, New Cumberland, PA 17070
  • Meineke Car Care Center - Rodney Road  1775 Rodney Road, York, PA 17408
  • Meineke Car Care Center - South Queen Street 855 South Queen Street, York, PA 17403
  • Meineke Car Care Center - 2nd Street 201 N. 2nd Street, New Freedom, PA 17349
  • Meineke Car Care Center - Baltimore Street 871 Baltimore Street, Hanover, PA 17331
  • Meineke Car Care Center - Carlisle Pike 6510 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
  • Meineke Car Care Center - Carlisle Street 1125 Carlisle Street, Hanover, PA 17331
  • Meineke Car Care Center - East Chocolate Ave 1401 East Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, PA 17033
  • Meineke Car Care Center - Gettysburg Road 2236 Gettysburg Rd, Camp Hill, PA 17011
  • Meineke Car Care Center - Jonestown Road 4509 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg, PA 17109
  • Meineke Car Care Center - Manheim Pike 1220 Manheim Pike, Lancaster, PA 17601
  • Meineke Car Care Center - Market Street 2301 E Market Street, York, PA 17402
  • Meineke Car Care Center - Paxton Street 3098 Paxton Street, Harrisburg, PA 17111

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