Multiple Idiot lights came on!

[ddmcginnis]

My battery, radiator, and brake lights all came on at once. This is on a '93 1g. The car also pops and hesitates terribly at around 4000 rpm and really won't wind up beyond that. Checked and reseated fuses, alternator wires, etc. Don't have a way to check codes. Any ideas????

 

[Lordpaxin]

check the voltages on the battery post, and the positive wire on the alternator,
see if they match.

 

[djpast]

alternator died. replace it. the end

 

[sweetjumper32]

Not necessarily. Check connections on battery and coming from battery. If their is a loose cable, this will happen. Also, even if you have it tested at say, Auto Zone, it will comeback as an alternator problem, if any cables are loose. First step, check cables, pull them off, clean em off, and reconnect. I had this problem too, loose positive cable. Good luck.

 

[ddmcginnis]

Bingo, thanks guys. It was the alternator, getting a rebuilt one today. They looked inside my old one and it had self destructed to the point it couldn't be rebuilt. Odd 3 lights came on, you would think just the battery light would have come on.......

 

[Defiant]

Odd 3 lights came on, you would think just the battery light would have come on.......

That's another weird DSM thing. I've not botherd to try thinking it out.

Make sure you aren't dripping power steering fluid onto/into the alternator.

 

[Lordpaxin]

perhaps its the systems that hadnt sufficent voltage to operate properly. and the sensor shown them as not operating properly.