[Emma]

Land Cruiser wouldn’t start at the worst possible time and I learned my lesson about ignoring the signs

Sunday morning I’m already running late for a meeting and I hop in the Cruiser turn the key and get that dreadful slow cranking sound followed by a few clicks and then absolutely nothing and I’m just sitting there in my parking space staring at the dashboard lights flickering like a bad disco and cursing myself because for the past two weeks I’ve noticed it was taking just a tiny bit longer to fire up in the mornings but I kept telling myself it was just the heat and I’d deal with it next weekend which obviously never came. I had to borrow my wife’s car and she was less than thrilled about being stranded at home without wheels and I spent half my lunch break googling battery options because I refuse to pay dealership prices for what is essentially a consumable part that any decent shop can handle and I stumbled across a few places that do mobile fitting where they actually come to you and swap it out on the spot which is honestly a lifesaver when you’re already stuck in a parking garage and don’t want to deal with jumper cables and the embarrassment of asking a stranger for a jump in forty degree heat. I ended up finding a service that does Toyota vehicle battery replacement Abu Dhabi and they had someone out to my building within a couple of hours and the guy even checked the alternator output and cleaned the terminal clamps without me having to ask which is more than I expected for a simple battery swap and now I’m back on the road and my wife is only slightly annoyed that I didn’t listen to her when she said the car sounded tired last month. Moral of the story don’t ignore the slow crank because it’s always going to fail on the morning you actually need to be somewhere on time.