Battery dies weird!!!! Help please

Guero

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Well i was driving around and i noticed my lights getting dimmer and dimmer, then my rpm's dropped to zero(stopped working), but the car was still running, then the mph did the same. I stopped at a gas station. To look around but nothing. I started it but it barely started. I got home turned it of and tried to start it and nothing just the sound of a dead battery. What the hell can be wrong? The alternater??? Battery is brand new!!!!

 

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might be the alternator, get it checked out

 

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Had the same problem..... My battery was new and my alternator was new.... My problem.......... Had a bad wire! just check your wires and alternator

 

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sounds like a atl to me when they go bad they drain everything from the battery when mine died in my old sunbird i was driving back from work a hour drive and i watched it get low then all the gauges started going crazy

 

Guero

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Thanks Guys! Ill take of the alternater and have it checked but before i will defitnetly look for a bad wire

 

1TallMF

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Yup. Car was running off of the battery. Check your connections at the alternator, and for continuity accross the charge cable that runs from the alternator to the distribution box. If that all appears normal have the alternator bench tested.

edit: oopsy. your post poped-up while I was writing this.

 

Guero

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yes sir! Last night i did check the connections to the Alternater. they seemed fined, but then again i missed when the CAI fell of and the car wouldn't run

 

HISSIN50

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After the battery charges (while you're at the parts store having the alt bench tested) check battery voltage with the car off vs with the car idling. Car off should be 12.6 volts or so. Car idling should be 14.4 volts at first, and then no lower than ~13.6 volts.

If the alt tests good but there's no output, check the alt fuse (underhood fuse box) and the fusible links for the alternator (on the side of the PS bracket, just under some wire loom).

When checking connections, dont forget arguably the most important one on the car that's most overlooked - the PDC connection.

Good luck.

 

Guero

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PDC???

 

HISSIN50

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Power distribution Center. It's the clump of big wires on the side of the underhood fuse box. The battery, alternator and power to the rest of the car need this connection to be in great shape or all sorts of issues arise (it's the equivalent of the starter solenoid battery lug on a fox III, for the old fox guys).

Good luck.

 

Guero

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Well it was a gay ass fuse!!!!!!!!!! Switched it went for a drive, had a little problem while i wasdriving the first 5 minutes or less. Then it started working like normal again!!!!!!!!!!!!YAY!!!!!!!

 

HISSIN50

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You should always use blade-style fuses instead of whatever kind it was you had in there before.

Seriously, glad to hear you got it fixed.