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koods
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Rolled it down the hill
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koods
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Re: Car batteries... [Re: koods]
#27069842 - 12/03/20 11:12 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I loved that piece of shit. Bought it from a guy at the CIA.
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Re: Car batteries... [Re: koods]
#27069843 - 12/03/20 11:13 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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You rolled it down the hill and did what?
Tercels are actually desirable these days.
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koods
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Popped the clutch 😒
It was a 1982 manual transmission
Sometimes I’d just get a couple people to push it. It was really easy to get it started
When the alternator died, I would hit it with a hammer to get it working again
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Edited by koods (12/03/20 11:19 AM)
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Re: Car batteries... [Re: koods]
#27069907 - 12/03/20 11:41 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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1982. What did I say about cars newer than 1990? Oh yeah!
Modern cars generally need like 1200 RPM to trigger the ignition, that's hard to do by pushing a car. Manual transmission of course are going away quickly, most don't even know how to operate one.
The brushes were stuck in the alternator, by whacking it they would move up close and make contact on the slip rings. I actually had a window AC unit that would do that. You could hear it turn on, but the compressor never started. I cut a hole in the side of the enclosure and would hit the compressor motor with a hammer and it would fire right up. My wife loves to tell that story. This was in our first apartment together.
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Got it tested. The shop said it was bad. He had me turn it on in order to check my alternator and starter too. Apparently they were both good... Didn't know you can test all 3 just by clamping on his gauges.
Ended up buying a new battery, but fuck, it was a pain in the ass. You have to completely remove the front driver side tire.
Started up beautifully once I finished though.
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They can't test the starter at all. That's bullshit. The other two, yes.
That sounds like a bitch of a battery. My Ford Escape was a monster to change the battery on. You had to take out all the rain gutters for the windshield.
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I may have not heard him right. I do know he checked the alternator though.
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Well that's good, glad you are back on the road!
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Hell yeah.. hopefully that's all it was. Someone earlier had said that a bad alternator can and will destroy a new battery. The guy did say it's good though, so who knows.
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You are almost certainly fine. Don't sweat it. You can't control it anyways.
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A lot of batteries on their last threads give out when the cold weather finally hits
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Re: Car batteries... [Re: trees]
#27070560 - 12/03/20 06:58 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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No shit? I did not know that. Makes sense though..
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Re: Car batteries... [Re: pslyke]
#27070570 - 12/03/20 07:04 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Also, this is the time of the year that batteries fail if you are living in a region that is getting into late fall/early winter. It would be a coincidence if your alternator failed right at the time of year that the cold is stressing your old/dead battery.
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Re: Car batteries... [Re: pslyke]
#27070709 - 12/03/20 08:29 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Frankly, cars should be built so that the user can replace things easily. Same thing with computers and phones. Whoever designed these pieces of shit to make them so fucking difficult to diagnose and repair was the dumbest fucking loser on the planet.
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I mean these things are insanely complex machines but they've been extremely refined over decades and decades of people trying to make shitloads by coming out with the best this part or that system. Theres not a part made for a car that isn't like so researched and designed by scores of brilliant people trying build off each other and come up with the new shit. Like lit any part of a car you would be very very hard pressed to come up with a better one or way to do it ahit has gotten to the point the numbers are like almost as good as it physically gets. When u think about it this is as simple as it gets for a machine like this. If he just took it to the guy and had it tested he woulda had it sorted in less than an hour. That being said it used to be a whole hell of alot easier to swap an alternator on a car but most them are still basically just throw em in.
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Ditto on the alternator.
The same thing happened to me last summer. I had to have my car jump-started in order to start it. I had already had the starter replaced, so I knew the starter was still good when I turned the key and the engine started immediately off the jump-start from my neighbor's car.
I asked my mechanic to test the electrolyte concentration in the battery to see if the battery was still good, and to test the alter-nator if the battery was good. After testing the battery and the alternator, he said the alternator was only putting out 13.something volts DC with the engine running and should be re-placed. So I had him replace the alternator, which ended up costing about twice what I expected, and he tested the new alternator and said it put out 14.2 VDC.
Problem solved--at least until Old Man Winter came to town. Then one night I left the trunk of my car unlatched, allowing the automatic trunk light to draw current for the better part of a 24-hour period. The starter wouldn't crank at all. After remembering seeing the trunk light shining, I got out my wall-powered battery charger and charged the battery for 20 minutes. After waiting 20 minutes, I re-moved the cables from the battery charger, and restarted the car. (I keep my car in the garage. It might have taken much longer if the car was kept outdoors.)
BOTTOM LINE: If you don't have another car OR a neighbor to jump- start your car, at least get an AC wall charger to charge your battery in case this happens.
If your alternator is putting out less than 14.something volts DC when the engine is running, replace it.
A cold battery should read 12.something volts DC. A 11.something VDC battery might start the car in warm weather, but in cold weather, you will probably need a jump start.
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Yeah cars are complex but we've now been using them for more than a century. They should be built with EASY REPAIRABILITY AND DIAGNOSTICS.
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You don't own triple square sockets up through 20mm?
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