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pschroeder08

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ok heres the deal, my oil gauge has been jumpin around obviously, i know its a dummy however now im getting dimmed lights and my voltage meter is goin down when im not movin, could this possibly be fix by attaching a ground to like a valve bolt to teh ground onteh batery or like stru to vavle bolt? ideas?

 

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I would definitly try and find out the real problem. The dimming lights could be due to a ground wire going bad(corroding). My girlfriends integra was doing that(dimming lights), battery and alt. tested fine. I added a few ground wires and it fixed it right up. But I also found and removed the bad/corroding grounds as well as added extra.

I'd have the battery and alt. tested though. Take it to autozone or advanced and get it done for free. While you are there, if they test ok, might as well walk in and get a few ground wires and see if you can find some bad ones on your car.

 

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pschroeder08

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ok , so where exactly woudl i be looking and replacing these ground wires? sorry so stupid haha , my negative terminal has a ****ton of corrision on it, i jstu boguth the car so i havent begubn to realyl **** with it

 

tomustang

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Well what is applied to your sig "3 ten inch jbl subs, 2 jbl 800 watt ammps, and mb quartz highs mids and crossovers" sounds like it is a batt/alt problem, look there first

 

tomustang

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pschroeder08 said:

I just bought the car so I haven't begun to really **** with it

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Do you know what was really done to it when you got it, meaning the mods that are in your sig? So people don't really tell the truth or don't tell at all

 

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pschroeder08

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well its my liek good friend hes a second class in the navy , imint eh navy obviously, its a clean clean setup as far as the subs go , ill go to autozone today get the batt alt tested then work from there, ill also try the ground chassis thing too

 

forum155pl

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get your alternator tested too... also conciter doing the "BIG 3" look it up on yahoo.. its a grounging scheme for big stereos.... i wuold also try and disconnect your amp fron the battery and see if that helps..

 

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*Grounding*

 

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pschroeder08

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yea bought a new alternator, and when it is doing thsi my stereo is off, i will try disconnectiing the stereo altogether, and im goign to make a new solid ground. my alt was goign dead anyways you coudl hear the bearing going out, and then i got it tested, its toast, so thats replaced , any otehr ideas, thansk for the help so far