Don't Be Stranded With A Dead Battery!

I’m a good ‘ol boy from Western Kentucky. Over the years I’ve owned many cars and boats.

About three years ago I transferred up to Michigan for a new consulting job. Those Michigan winters can sure be brutal: snow, wind, ice and freezing cold, especially in January and February.

Last Fall I heard about an amazing new product from a friend of mine. It’s called the Battery Alert. I went out and bought one to place on my 2001 Plymouth Voyager. As it turned out, it saved my butt.

The Battery Alert is a little device that can fit easily in the palm of your hand and weighs just a couple of ounces. I attached it to my minivan’s battery with ease. All I needed was a way to loosen the nuts on the battery terminal and slide in the spades of the Battery Alert and then retighten the nuts again. This took all of about 1 minute. Anyone can do it. It comes with instructions but installation is intuitive. There is also a little plastic tie that fits onto the Battery Alert and allows one to tie the Battery Alert to the battery cables. So the Battery Alert can hang and is secured.

In any event, the Battery Alert acts as a little computer in a box to analyze your car battery. Every time you start your vehicle, it takes an analysis. Over time all batteries lose some juice and run down. It does not matter if you have a lead acid battery or one of those newer gel batteries. What this little battery analyzer does, is check to see how healthy your battery is every time you start your vehicle, boat, motorcycle, etc.

At some point, this little battery monitor reads that the battery will fail in the near future. It then emits this loud alarm for about 5 to 10 seconds and then shuts off. Well one fine mornin’ last February I heard this alarm go off. According to the manufacturer’s this meant that my battery was about to fail. Each time I started my van for the next day or two the alarm went off again. This meant it was time for me to have my battery checked. Well I was really busy and did not get the battery checked. About three days after the first alarm went off, it was a really cold morning. My van is always parked outside, even in winter. It barely started that morning. The Battery Alert alarmed again. I knew it was time to change my battery. I went off to my local auto parts store and bought a new lead acid battery.

I have since given one of these Battery Alerts to all of my kids, even though they live down south in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia. I don’t want my kids to be stranded with a dead battery. If you have ever been stranded with a dead battery, you know what I am talking about. What’s interesting about all these 12-volt car batteries is the following: the heat will kill them more than the cold. But when you go to start in the cold, the battery will need more amps to start in the cold. So even though my kids all live in warm climates, they are as much as risk as anyone else.

I want my kids to have peace of mind. (Or is it really my peace of mind we are talking about?!). I don’t want to have to worry if my daughter Les gets stuck after work in a dark parking garage. I don’t want to worry if Al has a breakdown on I-75 in Atlanta or if Brent or his wife Lisa is out with my granddaughter around Nashville when a storm passes through.

Knowing that my kids all have the Battery Alert makes me feel like I took care of them real well. Call it battery insurance but this is one item I really like.

The Battery Alert is under $20 bucks and can save you a huge headache and towing expenses down the road? Not convinced by my story? Check out the features and benefits of this product.

Order your Battery Alert Pre-Failure Warning Device today for peace of mind. I'm sure glad I did.