Modbury's roads and car parks
The end of the O-Bahn
The O-Bahn runs 12 km from Grenfell Street in the city to the Tea Tree Plaza Interchange, which has 700 parking spaces. A car that does a short run there and waits all day spends most of its life parked, so the battery is worth testing at every service.
Tea Tree Plaza
Tea Tree Plaza, open since September 1970, has 245 stores and 4,500 car parks over 3 floors. If a car won't start in a car park and only clicks, the battery may be dead; a mobile mechanic can test and replace it where the car is, if the car park allows it.
North East Road into the Hills
North East Road runs through Modbury on its way through the northern Adelaide Hills to Gumeracha, Birdwood and Mannum. The gully the council is named after climbs through the foothills towards Gumeracha, once so steep only bullock wagons could manage it. A weekend run up there works the brakes and tyres in a way the trip to the Plaza never does.
Servicing a car that mostly sits
A car that spends its days parked at the interchange, the Plaza or the hospital does few kilometres, so the date in the service book comes up before the odometer does. Don't skip it: oil, brake fluid and coolant age even when the car isn't moving.
Car service in Adelaide covers what's included, and car battery replacement in Adelaide covers testing and replacing at the car.
Where we'd start
If the car mostly sits at the interchange, we'd service it by the calendar and ask for a battery test each time. Before a weekend up North East Road, we'd have the tyres and brakes looked at as well.