IRingTwyce
I ROCK at bumper cars!
Pretty sure my alternator is toast. Figures it would do this right after cracking 80k. :nonono:
So I'm cruising down the highway and I notice that my temp gauge is barely registering on the low end of normal. I thought that was weird, as it usually pegs dead center. So I roll down the window to see if it's unusually cool out. It isn't. When I roll the window back up and it stops, before I release the switch, my tach drops to zero. Car is still running. I release the switch, and the tach jumps back to 3250. I think, "Great, I just developed electrical gremlins." I experiment with the switch a couple more times. After the 2nd or 3rd time though, the tach stays at zero. Won't register at all, and this time the radio cuts off and won't come back on.
! So I push in the clutch, and kill the car, coasting at 75. Try to restart, I just get clicks, then the windshied wipers start on their own. I have to start the car by easing the clutch. At no point so far has my battery light come on. I try gunning the car with the clutch in, thinking maybe my belt is about done for, as it's been slipping periodically over the last few months. Finally the battery light starts to flicker. But at this point, I have gauges starting to go dead from lack of power.
I've killed the A/C, unplugged my phone and GPS, and turned off the radio by now. Just hoping to get to a decent exit. No such luck. Lights are fading, and the car has begun to bog down. I manage to limp off the nearest exit, as the next is seven miles away and there's no chance I'll make that one. She idles roughly with no guages registering, and all the idiot lights on. After a couple of minutes trying to keep her running, she dies. So now it's almost 1am, I'm at least 10 miles from the nearest town likely to have an auto parts store, and they won't open for another 6-7 hours anyway. This blows. I have the tools with me to change the alt., now I just have to figure out how to get one.
First time she's ever stranded me in ten years.
So I'm cruising down the highway and I notice that my temp gauge is barely registering on the low end of normal. I thought that was weird, as it usually pegs dead center. So I roll down the window to see if it's unusually cool out. It isn't. When I roll the window back up and it stops, before I release the switch, my tach drops to zero. Car is still running. I release the switch, and the tach jumps back to 3250. I think, "Great, I just developed electrical gremlins." I experiment with the switch a couple more times. After the 2nd or 3rd time though, the tach stays at zero. Won't register at all, and this time the radio cuts off and won't come back on.
! So I push in the clutch, and kill the car, coasting at 75. Try to restart, I just get clicks, then the windshied wipers start on their own. I have to start the car by easing the clutch. At no point so far has my battery light come on. I try gunning the car with the clutch in, thinking maybe my belt is about done for, as it's been slipping periodically over the last few months. Finally the battery light starts to flicker. But at this point, I have gauges starting to go dead from lack of power.I've killed the A/C, unplugged my phone and GPS, and turned off the radio by now. Just hoping to get to a decent exit. No such luck. Lights are fading, and the car has begun to bog down. I manage to limp off the nearest exit, as the next is seven miles away and there's no chance I'll make that one. She idles roughly with no guages registering, and all the idiot lights on. After a couple of minutes trying to keep her running, she dies. So now it's almost 1am, I'm at least 10 miles from the nearest town likely to have an auto parts store, and they won't open for another 6-7 hours anyway. This blows. I have the tools with me to change the alt., now I just have to figure out how to get one.
First time she's ever stranded me in ten years.
at least you wont have to do it again anytime soon