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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With only 4000 miles a year, It sounds like you aren’t driving frequently enough which means the battery doesn’t really have a chance to fully charge. The short trips are draining. One way to keep it charged is to use a trickle charger when it’s sitting at home so that it’s always full when you need it. [/quote]

This right here is the right answer.  It's true that being four years old, it's getting up there in age but you have to understand that when you drive longer distances, your alternator recharges the battery.  If all you make are short trips (literally what you described) then you are depleting your battery with all the starts and the short trips never allow it to recharge.  This is actually bad for your exhaust system and to a lesser extent your engine.  This is because you never get up to full operating temperature.  Hot motor oil never properly lubricates the engine and the cold engine doesn't fully combust the gas which leaves a lot of combusted gas and water in the exhaust system.

How you solve all these problems (the battery issue you know about and the other issues you're going to have that you don't know about yet) is to simply drive the car on the Interstate for 30 minutes or so once every month (or biweekly if you prefer).  This is literally all you need to do.  So while you can get a trickle charger as the other pp mentioned, I would just drive it some place once a month to make sure no other issues arise.  Find a shop or restaurant you like half an hour away, drive there and shop or eat then drive back half an hour.  Do that once or twice a month.  Problem solved.[/quote]

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