Car battery replacement in Al Qusais

Al Qusais is one of Dubai's older districts, stretching from the Al Nahda border towards the airport. It has three faces: a residential side of villas and low-rise flats, an industrial side of warehouses and workshops, and a corridor of schools, hospitals and offices along the Green Line. Thumbay Hospital sits behind Lulu near Stadium station and Aster Hospital is in Al Qusais Industrial Area 2. At the end of the line, Etisalat by e& station has a multi-storey park-and-ride for more than 2,300 cars.

Park-and-ride cars are a regular source of calls. They are driven ten minutes at dawn, left on an upper deck until evening and driven ten minutes home, so the battery ages in the heat without ever being fully charged. Shift workers from the hospitals and the industrial side find the same thing after a twelve-hour stand. In the villa streets it is the older second car and the family seven-seater, started twice a week, that fail first when the weather turns hot in May.

Villas and low-rise buildings in Al Qusais usually have the car in a driveway or an open bay, so the technician can pull up next to it. The park-and-ride at Etisalat by e& station is barrier controlled: give the floor and row, and keep your Nol card to hand for the exit. In the industrial blocks, a company name and gate number work better than a street name. Public street bays are Dubai paid parking zones.

The technician crosses into Dubai on Al Ittihad Road or through Al Nahda, then uses Baghdad Street or Damascus Street depending on which part of Al Qusais the car is in. Queues at the border in the morning and around the school gates in the early afternoon are the usual delays.