[Shotimes] Serious electrical gremlins this morning

[Donald Mallinson]

Batteries can die in the heat too.  Heat will kill a battery, cold will 
just drain it down quicker usually. 

two years is a bit quick for a battery to go bad, but it can happen a 
lot sooner, just the luck of the draw.  I would get the battery checked 
with a good tester that puts a load on it and see if it is bad.  They 
can go bad enough to still start the car, but all the electrical stuff 
works wierd.

Don Mallinson

fwhittle@mindspring.com wrote:

>Ok, I cleaned the cables and terminals, got a jump, and everything seemed fine for about 5 minutes, then the same symptoms.  The battery's about 2 years old - don't batteries usually die in cold weather?  I'd suspect the alternator first, since it's the original one with 155,000 miles.  Whaddya think--I suspect the battery's good since it held the brief charge it got from the jump for about 5 minutes of driving.
>
>Frank
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul L Fisher <sho@paul-fisher.com>
>Sent: Aug 12, 2005 12:04 PM
>To: fwhittle@mindspring.com, shotimes@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Serious electrical gremlins this morning
>
>Ditto what Ron said.
>
>
>Paul L Fisher
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
>On Behalf Of Ron Porter
>Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 1:44 PM
>To: fwhittle@mindspring.com; shotimes@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Serious electrical gremlins this morning
>
>Clean and reinstall your battery terminals. If it's been a couple of ears
>since you replaced the battery, recharge it, or replace it.
>
>Ron Porter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
>On Behalf Of fwhittle@mindspring.com
>Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:19 PM
>To: shotimes@autox.team.net
>Subject: [Shotimes] Serious electrical gremlins this morning
>
>It started with the ABS light coming on.  Then the EATC started going
>crazy--going
>off and on, the display freaking out.  Then the radio started cutting out.
>There
>MAY have been some drivability issues too, it was hard to tell.  Then when I
>pulled
>into the work lot, the Check Engine light finally came on.  This was all in
>the 
>space of about 10 minutes.  Does this maybe sound like the CCRM?  The last
>time 
>I had a dead battery it didn't act like this.
>
>Frank Whittle
>'95 ATX
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