tsi40422
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- Sep 16, 2011
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Bartow,
Florida
**First off, Electronics are not my Forte**
So here is the deal. My car's RPMs slowly dropped one day and the car turned off. I have driven the car for about 30 minutes for about 2 weeks, on and off, since i got her back up and running.
The battery has always been great and It's a brand New Alternator.
I jumped the car and got it to turn on for a bit and removed the terminals from the battery. The car instantly died. So my first thought was a Bad Alternator(even tho it's new).
Removed Alternator, took it to Autozone. They tested it twice and everything came out positive and good on their machine.
So I installed it back on the car, made sure all the connections were tight and in good condition.
I took a Multimete to the battery terminals while it was out of the car and they read 10V and it didn't drop.
I then hook up the battery back up and test it without turning the car on.
The meter showed the battery slowly dropping from 10V down to 6V. There is a drain somewhere in the car.
I jumped the car and left both cars connected with the jumper cables, thats the only way it'll stay on. I took the meter to the Alternator output and it read 13V consistently (maybe because the other car was hooked up too)
I took the jumper cables off and the battery read 12.9V and slowly started to die once again, within 60 seconds the car would die. Jumped it again and then removed the cables. This time I gave it a little bit of a rev and it died even Faster.
I removed every fuse on the fuse box just to make sure it was no accessory that was draining it. But it keeps Draining it slowly.
Could it be a bad Battery? I tried getting it tested but i took it when it was dead, they said i had to charge it first in order for them to test it.
Im positive there is a short somewhere, but at the same time the Alternator should be compensating a bit for a possible dead battery! What could be draining it so much that even a good alternator can't keep it on for a bit longer.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
So here is the deal. My car's RPMs slowly dropped one day and the car turned off. I have driven the car for about 30 minutes for about 2 weeks, on and off, since i got her back up and running.
The battery has always been great and It's a brand New Alternator.
I jumped the car and got it to turn on for a bit and removed the terminals from the battery. The car instantly died. So my first thought was a Bad Alternator(even tho it's new).
Removed Alternator, took it to Autozone. They tested it twice and everything came out positive and good on their machine.
So I installed it back on the car, made sure all the connections were tight and in good condition.
I took a Multimete to the battery terminals while it was out of the car and they read 10V and it didn't drop.
I then hook up the battery back up and test it without turning the car on.
The meter showed the battery slowly dropping from 10V down to 6V. There is a drain somewhere in the car.
I jumped the car and left both cars connected with the jumper cables, thats the only way it'll stay on. I took the meter to the Alternator output and it read 13V consistently (maybe because the other car was hooked up too)
I took the jumper cables off and the battery read 12.9V and slowly started to die once again, within 60 seconds the car would die. Jumped it again and then removed the cables. This time I gave it a little bit of a rev and it died even Faster.
I removed every fuse on the fuse box just to make sure it was no accessory that was draining it. But it keeps Draining it slowly.
Could it be a bad Battery? I tried getting it tested but i took it when it was dead, they said i had to charge it first in order for them to test it.
Im positive there is a short somewhere, but at the same time the Alternator should be compensating a bit for a possible dead battery! What could be draining it so much that even a good alternator can't keep it on for a bit longer.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks