thefrey
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Had an eventful day today. About an hour and a half from home, got a service battery message on my dash. Didn’t think much of it because I sometimes randomly get them. Figured it may just be a grounding issue, and I have a 4 month old battery
Shut the car off, walked inside to where I was going, went back out to my car, started up no problem. Was driving around some back roads when weird things started happening. Turn signals didn’t make any noise, traction control gave up, tons of random lights on the dash. I was like huh… pulled it in to a parking lot and parked and shut it off just to see if it would start. Would turn over once or twice but nothing else.
Got a jump and then made it about 300ft before it died and I was in another parking lot. I tried to downshift to get my RPMs up and nothing was working. Tons of lights again and then dash went dead and the engine shut off 10 seconds later. Got another jump from a group of very nice women (thank you lol) and this time let it charge for 10 minutes and then HAULED to the auto parts store since I had no tools on me and that was my only hope of getting home.
Went ahead and put the an upgraded 160A on there with a new idler pulley.
It was interesting because it didn’t really show much symptoms of going out. I’ve driven 800 miles in the past week and it seemed to be totally fine. Although I was beginning to think my starter may be going out… lol
Figured I’d share a little bit of fun from my day
Shut the car off, walked inside to where I was going, went back out to my car, started up no problem. Was driving around some back roads when weird things started happening. Turn signals didn’t make any noise, traction control gave up, tons of random lights on the dash. I was like huh… pulled it in to a parking lot and parked and shut it off just to see if it would start. Would turn over once or twice but nothing else.
Got a jump and then made it about 300ft before it died and I was in another parking lot. I tried to downshift to get my RPMs up and nothing was working. Tons of lights again and then dash went dead and the engine shut off 10 seconds later. Got another jump from a group of very nice women (thank you lol) and this time let it charge for 10 minutes and then HAULED to the auto parts store since I had no tools on me and that was my only hope of getting home.
Went ahead and put the an upgraded 160A on there with a new idler pulley.
It was interesting because it didn’t really show much symptoms of going out. I’ve driven 800 miles in the past week and it seemed to be totally fine. Although I was beginning to think my starter may be going out… lol
Figured I’d share a little bit of fun from my day
