Can't start my car, out of power?

[wangboy925]

A couple of days ago I was working in my car doing some wiring and listening to music at the same time. Working for a couple of hours, I finally finished. I tried to start up the car but it would not go. As I turned the key it made clicking noises as if tried to turn on. It didn't try to turn over. I tried it a couple more times and then it wouldn't click over, it would just make everything quiet. The battery read 11.95 volts. So then I switched over batteries from my other eclipse and now the talon works. Now I took out the good battery from the eclipse and put it back in the eclipse and now the eclipse won't start. I put the original talon battery back in the talon and now the talon works???? How could this symptom go from my talon to the eclipse while both cars retained their original battery? My shop checked the alternator and retigtened the battery cables and everything was fine. So then I took what was considered the faulty eclipse battery and got a new one from wal-mart( free replacement). Both cars start up fine now but a couple of hours ago, I stayed in the talon to work on my oil pressure gauge, listening to music again and now it won't start up again. Note that both my eclipse and talon batteries are no longer than 2 months old. Any ideas?

 

[RedTalon95]

One suggestion is to not listen to your car radio while you are working on it. This drains the battery pretty good. Whenever I'm working inside my car, I always take out the conjoined radio/interior light fuse.

 

[imagine3163]

One suggestion is to not listen to your car radio while you are working on it. This drains the battery pretty good. Whenever I'm working inside my car, I always take out the conjoined radio/interior light fuse.

+1

Especially if you have an aftermarket sound system with a 1000+ watt amplifier. If you have to listen to the radio when you work on your car I would suggest just bringing out a portable stereo for that.

 

[EvoKnievo]

yes, music drains your battery, try charging your battery. the clicking you are hearing are the servo's in your starting arking . basically letting you know that your batt voltage is to low to fully engage the starter motor. just charge it, if the problem persists, you may have a bad cell in your battery which means you need a new one. But jump start it, let your alternator do its job for about ten minutes, and then try to start it without the jump.

 

[nfernotalon]

uuhh... you drained your battery..

 

[wangboy925]

But then tell me how is my donor battery from the eclipse get drained then?

 

[steeda763]

Try jump starting your car. Your alternator works, but it may have a much lower output than your other car. After you get it started drive it for 20 minutes in the higher RPMs (lower gear, not triple digit speeds) to move that alternator a little faster. It may need a long time to charge.

Wal-Mart isn't the best place to get quality car batteries.

 

[wangboy925]

Wal-Mart isn't the best place to get quality car batteries.

I know but I got the battery for free from them. You can't beat that unless they pay you to take it off their hands.