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Cream79L82
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My car runs fabulous when started. The trouble is I can't get the thing to start. I was jumping it for about two weeks trying to figure out if I had some major battery drain that was killing it because the half wit at O'Reilly's said the battery was fine when I had them check it. I didn't even know how old it was (at least a few years) and not even a closed cell so I finally decided that I should just replace and see if it simply wasn't holding a charge. That seemed to fix the problem because she started up like a champion... and continued to for about a week. I even had let it sit for about 3 days and then it still had plenty of charge to start right up.
It wasn't until I didn't drive the vette for 6 or 7 days. When I went to start it was pretty well dead. The very annoying thing was... it didn't seem alternator was doing anything to re-charge it once I started it. What is so confusing to me is the engine purrs just great all through the power range.. I have an amplifier and an aftermarket system and it all runs great, my headlights and accesories have adequate power, and my volt gauge reads steady to the right side of 13 volts. The quartz clock, though noisy, keeps perfect time. It doesn't seem like it should be able to drain the battery between sittings. A friend suggested me that it might be that the problemis the generator provides enough current to run everything just fine, but not charge the battery. I jumped her last night and drove it probably 10 minutes to the OU vs. Texas tech basketball game. It sat for about 4 hours, and it wouldn't start yet again.
I hope some of you have diagnosed similar problems before. What sort of checklist should I go through? Would taking the alternator to a parts store and having them check tell me definitively if that was the problem?
Thanks in advance.
It wasn't until I didn't drive the vette for 6 or 7 days. When I went to start it was pretty well dead. The very annoying thing was... it didn't seem alternator was doing anything to re-charge it once I started it. What is so confusing to me is the engine purrs just great all through the power range.. I have an amplifier and an aftermarket system and it all runs great, my headlights and accesories have adequate power, and my volt gauge reads steady to the right side of 13 volts. The quartz clock, though noisy, keeps perfect time. It doesn't seem like it should be able to drain the battery between sittings. A friend suggested me that it might be that the problemis the generator provides enough current to run everything just fine, but not charge the battery. I jumped her last night and drove it probably 10 minutes to the OU vs. Texas tech basketball game. It sat for about 4 hours, and it wouldn't start yet again.
I hope some of you have diagnosed similar problems before. What sort of checklist should I go through? Would taking the alternator to a parts store and having them check tell me definitively if that was the problem?
Thanks in advance.