how many times have you honestly checked your car battery, we check our oil, we check our water but if you're like me you've probably never checked your car battery. We all know car has a battery and we all know the car won't start with out battery so why is it that testing a car battery never ever falls on our radar of small maintenance jobs.
last week and typically on a Monday morning my car battery decided not to start my car, like many people in the UK my first port of call was the RAC who kindly came to my home and helped me start my car. The RAC mechanic was a helpful chap but his final warning to me before he departed was to replace or a least a recharge my car's battery.
Recharge a car battery sounds easier than it actually is, how many UK households have a car charger stored away in a garage not mine. So off to Hal-fords I went, and to my horror car batteries are not cheap and finding the correct battery almost needs a degree. Like many of the National high Street stores the staff within Hal-fords didn't really offer much assistance when looking for the correct battery out of hundreds of car batteries, so I decided to turn my attention to Google in search for some better advice and achieve the battery.
Like many things the internet offers all of us a quick and easy solution to finding a product and are cheaper price the high Street is capable of offering, within a few minutes of typing in the words car batteries into Google I was surfing around a large battery mega-store that offered helpful step-by-step wizards in order to find the correct battery for my car and 5 min later I placed my order for a brand-new battery with a five-year warranty for a fraction of the price of high Street store wanted. Okay unlike the high Street store my battery will take a few days to be delivered and if the problem with the battery I guess it might also take a few more days to arrange a swap-out or replacement of the battery however I have to be honest the information given at Hal-fords and saving offered on-line did not warrant the extra cost of shopping on the high Street.
it makes you wonder why people are so shocked that the high Street stores that we grew up loving are closing around us. On TV we hear that it's the UK recession that is taken out household brands such as Woolworth s but is it really or is it simply that the consumer now has the world at his fingertips allowing them to search and buy products at a fraction of the cost of the high Street providers can offer.
last week and typically on a Monday morning my car battery decided not to start my car, like many people in the UK my first port of call was the RAC who kindly came to my home and helped me start my car. The RAC mechanic was a helpful chap but his final warning to me before he departed was to replace or a least a recharge my car's battery.
Recharge a car battery sounds easier than it actually is, how many UK households have a car charger stored away in a garage not mine. So off to Hal-fords I went, and to my horror car batteries are not cheap and finding the correct battery almost needs a degree. Like many of the National high Street stores the staff within Hal-fords didn't really offer much assistance when looking for the correct battery out of hundreds of car batteries, so I decided to turn my attention to Google in search for some better advice and achieve the battery.
Like many things the internet offers all of us a quick and easy solution to finding a product and are cheaper price the high Street is capable of offering, within a few minutes of typing in the words car batteries into Google I was surfing around a large battery mega-store that offered helpful step-by-step wizards in order to find the correct battery for my car and 5 min later I placed my order for a brand-new battery with a five-year warranty for a fraction of the price of high Street store wanted. Okay unlike the high Street store my battery will take a few days to be delivered and if the problem with the battery I guess it might also take a few more days to arrange a swap-out or replacement of the battery however I have to be honest the information given at Hal-fords and saving offered on-line did not warrant the extra cost of shopping on the high Street.
it makes you wonder why people are so shocked that the high Street stores that we grew up loving are closing around us. On TV we hear that it's the UK recession that is taken out household brands such as Woolworth s but is it really or is it simply that the consumer now has the world at his fingertips allowing them to search and buy products at a fraction of the cost of the high Street providers can offer.
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