Q: low battery cd player not working
I recently got a new battery from tire plus. However last night while driving the low battery sign showed on my dashboard and my cd player stopped working.I drive for a while to charge my car up thinking that would help this morning I went to start car and it started but low battery came on as well as cd player I turned off the player and low battery went away. Please help me figure out why this is happening side note I live in Wisconsin super cold weather and this never happened with the radio only cdplayer
My car has 218000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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