Car battery replacement in Al Wahda

Al Wahda takes its name from Al Wahda Street, the stretch of the E11 that carries on from Al Ittihad Road into the middle of Sharjah. It is a commercial strip more than a neighbourhood: City Centre Sharjah, Lulu, furniture and electronics stores, and car dealers including the Al-Futtaim Toyota and Honda facilities, all reached from service lanes that run beside the main carriageway. Behind the frontage stand apartment blocks let mostly to singles and small families, with underground bays for tenants.

Cars here die in awkward places. A battery that was already tired gives up in a service lane outside a showroom, at a shop front with traffic squeezing past, or in the mall car park after a long visit. Company cars and delivery vehicles that work the strip all day make dozens of short hops with the engine switched off and on, which wears a standard battery down quickly. Staff cars left in the open behind the shops bake from morning until closing time.

Visitor parking along Al Wahda Street is tight: bays on the service lanes, paid by SMS, and usually full during shop hours. A dead car in a service lane cannot be left for long, so the technician parks nose to nose where he can, starts the car and, if a fitting is needed, moves with you to a calmer bay. City Centre Sharjah has its own large car park, so quote the level and zone when you call from there.

From Al Taawun Street the technician joins Al Ittihad Road northbound, which becomes Al Wahda Street. Slow traffic approaching the King Faisal Street junction and cars cutting in and out of the service lanes cost the most time.