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30th ACDelco Service Centre and 180th battery stockist underscore rapid growth across all-makes servicing and replacement battery supply. ACDelco, the long-standing Trade Trusted all-makes parts brand widely used by the professional automotive trade, is achieving significant scale in Australia as it expands its operations across all-makes vehicle servicing and replacement battery supply.

A car that starts fine every evening and won't turn over the next morning is one of the more annoying faults to chase, because the car looks completely normal the whole time it's happening. If your car battery drains overnight and the battery itself tests fine, the problem usually isn't the battery at all — it's something quietly pulling current while the car sits there doing nothing. That "something" is called parasitic drain, and good news first: a small amount of it is completely normal. Every modern car draws a trickle of current overnight to keep the clock, alarm, infotainment memory and various computer modules alive. The question isn't whether your car draws anything overnight — it's whether it's drawing more than it should.

Sealed Performance Batteries (SPB), one of Australia's leading suppliers of automotive, marine and energy storage batteries, has today announced an exclusive season-long partnership with Star 102.7 as the naming sponsor of the Biggest Little Taipan promotion for the 2026–27 NBL season. It's a commitment that will see SPB stand behind a Cairns family at every single Kenfrost Homes Cairns Taipans game from September 2026 through to the final home game in February 2027 — not a one-off appearance, but a full season of showing up for the community at the Cairns Convention Centre.

Everyone thinks they know how to jump start a car safely until they're standing between two open bonnets, cables in hand, trying to remember which colour goes where first. Get the order wrong and best case nothing happens — worst case you get a spark near a battery that's been quietly venting hydrogen gas. The actual procedure takes less than five minutes once you know it, and the reasons behind each step matter more than the step itself.

There's no single number that answers how often to replace a car battery, and anyone who gives you one flat figure is rounding off a lot of detail. What's true is that most batteries have a realistic window, and driving conditions push a given battery toward the short end or the long end of it more than most people expect. Knowing where your own driving falls in that range is more useful than memorising a generic figure.

A lot of battery replacements happen on a hunch. The car was slow to start once, so the battery gets blamed and swapped, sometimes correctly and sometimes not — meanwhile the actual fault was a parasitic drain, a failing alternator, or a loose terminal that would've cost nothing to fix. Knowing how to test a car battery properly with a multimeter takes the guesswork out of it, and it's a five-minute job once you know what the numbers actually mean.

Most drivers brace for battery trouble in winter, when a cold morning turns the key and nothing happens. In Australia, that instinct is backwards. Car battery heat damage does more long-term harm than a cold snap ever will, and spring is exactly the right time to catch it before summer finishes the job. If your battery has spent a few years baking under the bonnet through several Australian summers, the damage has probably already started — you just haven't noticed yet.

Most drivers replacing a battery for the first time since their car got a start-stop system assume any battery of the right physical size will do. It won't. Modern start-stop vehicles are built around one of two specific battery technologies, and fitting the wrong one doesn't just underperform — it can trip fault codes, disable the start-stop function, or wear out early. Understanding the AGM vs EFB battery question before you buy saves you a comeback trip to the parts counter and, more importantly, protects the system your car was actually engineered around.

There's a particular kind of dread that comes with turning the key on a frosty morning and hearing that slow, groaning crank instead of the engine catching. Car battery cold weather failures are one of the most common reasons cars won't start in the colder months, and they catch people out every single year including plenty of drivers who had no idea their battery was on its way out until the moment they needed it most. The good news is that cold-weather battery failure is largely predictable, and mostly preventable if you know what to check and when. Here's what's actually going on inside your battery when the temperature drops, and how to stay ahead of it.