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Electrical Issues with car when it rains
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mouse1999
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Sep 9, 2010, 7:02 PM
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Electrical Issues with car when it rains
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Key specs on my car: 1997 Nissan Maxima 3.0L V6, 150K miles
I’m having a problem with my car and I could use thoughts and advice from the experts, as I have taken it into the car shop and they couldn’t find anything wrong with it.
The issue started a few weeks ago when it had rained fairly hard during the day while my car was parked outside. When I came out from work, it was completely dead and wouldn’t turn over at all. There was a flicker of the door light when the door was open – and it was like there was some kind of flicker of power that I was getting – but it wouldn’t even try to turn over.
I got it towed to the auto shop, and the next day – it started fine. They ran tests and didn’t find anything wrong with it – and it drove fine for a couple of weeks.
Same thing happened 2 weeks later – but this time I tried connecting a jumper cable that wasn’t connected to another car to just the black connector on the battery – and when the clamp would touch the battery connector surface, I had power. That leads me to think that maybe it’s a grounding issue.
Well – it’s a few weeks later, and it has rained here for 2 days – and my car was fine. The rain has stopped and now it’s just humid – and once again, I’m having problems. It will sit in park with the AC going and everything, but when I put it in drive – it just dies.
I give it gas and try to let it idle high, but it does this weird hesitating at around 3,000 RPMs.
Does anyone have any thoughts on what the issue might be?
Any help would be greatly appreciated – and let me know if you need any additional information.
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Sidom
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Sep 9, 2010, 9:03 PM
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Re: Electrical Issues with car when it rains
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On something like this, 1st load test the battery to make sure it's good. Then take all the connection loose from the battery & where they attach to the engine & frame and clean them real good and resecure them..
The only suggestion I would have is either with the shop that has looked at it or with another one. Let them know that time is of the essence. When it's dead have it towed right over there and see if they can get someone to look at it WHILE IT'S DEAD. If they know that if it sits the problem will go away they should be able to work something out for you. If they can't, then find a shop that can, every shop in town can't be that busy where they couldn't spare 10 or 15 minutes for something like this.....
If every shop is that busy, all the time...Let me know where you live, maybe I'll be opening a shop......
(This post was edited by Sidom on Sep 9, 2010, 9:05 PM)
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