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Offline Wolfala

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Re: Car alternator question
« Reply #15 on: November 25, 2013, 03:25:37 PM »
How old was the original one?

Original little less then 2 years


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Offline homersipes

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Re: Car alternator question
« Reply #16 on: November 25, 2013, 03:31:54 PM »
seems as the battery is suspect, but only being 3 months old would be tough to think it would be bad.  I have seen a bad connection on the battery do that before, hooking jumper cables gave just enough contact to give a boost, a week later battery was dead.  It was a side post battery, so I took the ground off the battery and scuffied it up with knife put it back on and good ever since, 3 years now.

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Re: Car alternator question
« Reply #17 on: November 25, 2013, 10:46:50 PM »
Original little less then 2 years

 sounds like a bit of a history with short lived batteries in that car? does it get a lot of short trip driving, and a lot of setting like this for periods/? those both shorten the life of the battery. also......now that i've been out driving and thinking a bit more about it.....are you absolutely certain you didn't leave anything on? dome light? marker lights? glove box open?
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