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Old Apr 10, 2005 | 11:50 AM
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Driving home from an outing to The Woodlands area yesterday, the odometer started flashing crazy numbers, the CD suddenly started skipping/fading in & out, and the headlights were dimming intermittently. WTF -- gremlins have invaded my electrical system! When I watched the odometer do its crazy thing, it almost made me feel like I was high on something!

Anyway, my resident mechanic successfully diagnosed the problem this morning -- a badly corroded battery terminal is all it was! It was replaced and the car is ready to roll again.

Thanks honey!
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Old Apr 10, 2005 | 12:05 PM
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i had a similar problem. when i got the engine changed after a hydro-locking. it would do weird things, come to find out it was the ground to the engine block had come loose.
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Old Apr 10, 2005 | 12:41 PM
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I'm glad it wasn't anything more serious. You need to change the size of your sig pic!
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Old Apr 10, 2005 | 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by SS 4 ME
Driving home from an outing to The Woodlands area yesterday, the odometer started flashing crazy numbers, the CD suddenly started skipping/fading in & out, and the headlights were dimming intermittently. WTF -- gremlins have invaded my electrical system! When I watched the odometer do its crazy thing, it almost made me feel like I was high on something!

Anyway, my resident mechanic successfully diagnosed the problem this morning -- a badly corroded battery terminal is all it was! It was replaced and the car is ready to roll again.

Thanks honey!
Glad to help you out, sweet thing! The way she was describing what was going on while driving home, I was kinda concerned we had a major problem on our hands! Glad it was an easy fix.
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Old Apr 11, 2005 | 11:20 PM
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Well the gremlins are back. We'll check the ground to the engine block as suggested by AAron. Anyone else got any ideas? Thanks....
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Old Apr 12, 2005 | 01:01 AM
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maybe the starter cable is corroded this happen to me until I changed it.
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Old Apr 12, 2005 | 09:28 AM
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isnt that just so sweet
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