inspire
10+ Year Contributor
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- Jul 20, 2012
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Virginia
Ok so I have been searching through the forums and found a couple of good leads but I don't think that any of the others posts pertain to my issue that I am having. Ok so Basically when I start my car I have a Battery, Brake, and Coolant that will stay illuminated. For months they would stay on until I reached around 2500-3000 Rpms when first driving the car. Then light went away and nothing lit back up. Yesterday on a beautiful rainy morning the lights came on and stayed on my whole way to work which is 45 min away from home. Get to work, lights still shining. Go to leave work lights come on, as soon as rpms pass 2500 rpms The lights go away but when you let off the accelerator the lights come back on when it gets under 2500rpms and go back to idle. The car was driven for almost 2 hours yesterday. I adjusted the belt yesterday to make sure tension was tight thinking it would solve my problem but now I am left with annoying lights at idle still. The alternator was replaced not to long ago, literally right before the car was bought back in July of this past year.
I am trying to figure out what it could be, I just don't understand if the alternator is bad how in the hell it would make it all that way home, and all the way back. Keep in mind I work across a draw bridge and a ship came in so I was sitting at idle for a good 30 mins. So car ran for about 3 hours and didnt die, headlights didn't dim at all, and everything worked just fine. I had to replace my alternator fuse a few months back twice for whatever reason that caused that, ever since I used a pocketlogger I have been getting these lights. Don't know if that might tie it together for someone with better diagnosis skills. Id really hate to spend money on a part and then it ends up being something else. Car still starts and drives fine.
Thanks Tuners!
I am trying to figure out what it could be, I just don't understand if the alternator is bad how in the hell it would make it all that way home, and all the way back. Keep in mind I work across a draw bridge and a ship came in so I was sitting at idle for a good 30 mins. So car ran for about 3 hours and didnt die, headlights didn't dim at all, and everything worked just fine. I had to replace my alternator fuse a few months back twice for whatever reason that caused that, ever since I used a pocketlogger I have been getting these lights. Don't know if that might tie it together for someone with better diagnosis skills. Id really hate to spend money on a part and then it ends up being something else. Car still starts and drives fine.
Thanks Tuners!