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Old 04-04-2010, 05:53 PM
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After a tuning session I was on the way home and got on it. As I started to slow down I looked at the gauges and the voltage gauge was maxed and many of the warning lights were lit up like Air bag light, abs light, etc. I got back to the house and then went out of town. When I just got back tonight I tried to start the car to see if maybe the alternator had gotten hot and the car was completely dead.

I hooked up the jump box and fired up the car and the voltage gauge once again maxed so I cut it off.

What could be causing this? Electrical short maybe?
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check to see what the alt is putting out. should be close to 13ish volts. the voltage reg could be bad.
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Internal reg is messed up on your alt. Put a meter on the output and check it.
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what he said
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I agree with the above... however, have you washed your engine bay lately? I got a puddle of water that accumulated where my power plugs into my altenator after washing the engine bay. It did exactly what you are talking about. I got an air compressor, cleaned out the puddle of water in the socket and it fixed the problem...




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