Q: I've gone through 3 batteries in the last year

asked by on November 30, 2016

I bought a new battery May 2015 since then two of them were bad batteries just put have the new the third one install. is there something mechanical on my car that might cause a battery to go bad

My car has 168000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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