[Shotimes] Serious electrical gremlins this morning

[Carl Prochilo]

Down here in South Florida, I can attest to the fact that heat does a
number on batteries, especially if the car lives outside most of the time
and you let it discharge completely once or twice.  A Walmart or Costco
battery (read cheap) is an easy way to verify that.
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Fri, August 12, 2005 6:36 pm, Donald Mallinson said:
> 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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