WEIRD - Battery light on, but no problems....?

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 3:22 pm

yes and im leaving friday lol

Justin from Detroit1 · Mon Jun 26, 2006 3:42 pm

took it to Advanced. No codes were being put out. Check battery and alternator, everything was fine. Belts were all fine. He saidthe only thing he could think of would be a glitch with the attery light itself. I'm still taking it to the shop tomorrow.

Oh, and it hasn't stalled since earlier. Humidity has gone down, wonder if that is what caused it?

Robert Wollenberg · Post by **Robert Wollenberg** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:34 pm

maybe you had moisture in your distributor or something? That is if your car has a distributor I guess. I know many cars come with individual coils or coil packs now a days.

Post by **GlassWolf** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:53 pm

thread tl;dr
read first post,
could be a failing battery (read a lot of issues lately with optimas) or a bad or failing starter or bad wiring somewhere. Way to test this is under load.
take the car to a shop or store with an electrical system tester. It'll place a continuous load on the system and monitor both voltage and current delivery at the alternator and battery while doing so. This is really the only good way to test a battery, as just using a DMM won't place a high resistance load on the system to draw high current and see how the system responds.

The battery can show 12 volts when you start the car, and drop afterward or orly when trying to deliver high current.. cars can be troublesome like that.
Using a diagnostic computer to rad trouble codes is a good idea, too.

swimmerdude · Post by **swimmerdude** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:00 pm

GlassWolf wrote:could be a failing battery (read a lot of issues lately with optimas)

Great.... and I just ordered one.

Justin from Detroit1 · Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:16 am

Shoulda read the thread, Glass lol.

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:12 am

kinetic/Odyssey ftw!

MobileAudio219 · Post by **MobileAudio219** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:54 am

Diagnostic computers and scanners arent the same thing... Diagnostics are way more advanced and will pick up more codes then scanners...

Post by **GlassWolf** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:23 am

read a few more posts. if it's staling, the distributor suggestion is a good one. experienced that one first hand.
a bad seal or crack in the distributor cap or a bad plug cable could cause that to happen.
I also found for some reason that using some "dry gas" in with your fuel will make the stalling cease for a while as well.. but it's jus a temporary fix and will start again with he dry gas burns off.

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:10 pm

[quote="GlassWolf"]thread tl]

Ok thats two posts now with that tl;dr thing in it.

I gotta ask, WTF is that?