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Some kind of electrical issue.
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arcxero
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Apr 5, 2009, 3:54 PM
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Some kind of electrical issue.
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2000
Mitsubishi
Mirage LS
1.8L I4
95000 Miles
Okay, here's the deal. About a week and a half ago, I drive my car home from work just fine. Get up the next day and bam, engine won't turn. A few guage lights come up, but dimly and slowly. When I would try to engage anything else that took power, everything would shut off. Disengage it, and the couple gauge lights would light back up dimly again.
So I look under the hood and the pos cable is pretty badly corroded. It had greenish white powdery crap all over it. I take this as a sign my battery is bad and got a new one. The new one worked fine. It started my car, and it ran until the next day. I noticed when I started it to take it to work, it turned over a little slowly, but the battery was a weaker grade than it predeccessor so I thought nothing of it. Tried to take it home after work, and nothing. Had to jump it to get it home.
I've charged the new battery twice trying to troubleshoot, pulling fuses to no avail, the battery keeps dying. I took in my alternator in to AutoZone to have it checked and it passed with flying colors. I was intending to take it to a dealersdhip or at least to an AutoZone/Checker to have them run their free electrical system check on it but now it's even worse. Upon jumping it earlier, it started alright, but the moment I took the cables off the car died. And so I got under the hood and verified all of my alternator cables were hooked in properly... and tried to jump it again but this time it got even WORSE and it wouldn't turn at all. after a couple cranks it's like the power was just lost somewhere as even with the jumper cable connected nothing happened. I'm not even sure it clicked.
At this point the only thing I can think of is a really fried battery cable/terminal clamp. I'll have no issues with bringing it in to a professional at this point except... I can't ven get it running anymore. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Tom Greenleaf
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Apr 5, 2009, 7:12 PM
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Re: Some kind of electrical issue.
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Hey - March was battery cable month - you're late! Smile!
Take a hard look at the cable ends. If you found corrosion cleaning up may not be enough. A or B - whole new cable(s) pos and neg if you think so, or high quality replacement ends. Don't be fooling by the cheap temporary ones which are fine for just that (temporary) but they do make some nice ones to splice in if you want.
Check on starter and where neg goes to block connections too,
T
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