Need some help fellas
Car runs decent but after about 15 minutes of driving the battery light comes on. When I stop at a light the battery voltage drops really low along with the oil pressure. Sometimes one will drop and the other won't but it typically happens at the same time. The idle doesn't drop really much at all when this stuff happens. I replaced the alternator about four months ago. This started happening around then so I yanked the alternator and got it tested and it checked out. The battery is charging so I don't think it's a failing alternator. Here's the tricky part, perhaps stupid on my part...I'm running a 500W amp off of the stock setup. This could obviously be the problem, but I didn't notice any of these symptoms when I first put the amp in. Problems only appeared several months later.
Car runs decent but after about 15 minutes of driving the battery light comes on. When I stop at a light the battery voltage drops really low along with the oil pressure. Sometimes one will drop and the other won't but it typically happens at the same time. The idle doesn't drop really much at all when this stuff happens. I replaced the alternator about four months ago. This started happening around then so I yanked the alternator and got it tested and it checked out. The battery is charging so I don't think it's a failing alternator. Here's the tricky part, perhaps stupid on my part...I'm running a 500W amp off of the stock setup. This could obviously be the problem, but I didn't notice any of these symptoms when I first put the amp in. Problems only appeared several months later.