Checking a Car Battery Condition for Cold Weather Starts

Using a Multimeter to Check Voltage The old workhorse Honda CRV has been a tad slow turning over lately on cold mornings and a recent ‘who left the lights on for ten minutes?’ left us without enough battery power to even turn the engine over at all. Que random mad clicking and flashing dash lamps… Oops! Now, we’ve been running around in the Honda for nearly four years and the battery looked far from new when we bought it, so it doesn’t owe me anything really. It’s often quoted that …