Right now, I am trying to find out what is going on with my car. I have replaced the alternator and the Battery several times. The battery keeps going dead although I have put new ones on.
I wish someone would give me some advise about my car. I have taken it to several repair shops and they have told me that the alternator is bad or that the battery is bad. After having a new altinator and several new batteries put on it, the problem persists. Can someone please help me?
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Try changing the starter. I have an 86' Chrysler fifth avenue and the starter has gone out on it. When this happens it will drain your battery faster than you can turn the key in the ignition. If that's not the problem then it could be a bad connection either on the starter or the battery. On my car one of the wires came loose on the battery and it wouldn't even try to start, once I got it connected now it is up and running.
I have heard of problems with the ammeter in the dash. Just an idea!
Try checking your muffler bearings and automatic power shut off switch under the hood.
Hey just check your ground wire the one that goes to the engine and especially the one that comes from the firewall and also replace your voltage regulator they're only 35 dollars from auto-zone it is located on the top firewall on the passenger side and that's it it should charge right up.
Get a bigger battery that's all I had to do.
I think it might just be a bad connection so clean both positive and negitive terminal's on your battery.
As usual, it could be a couple of things, but if you're replacing batteries over a short time frame, on the order of every month and not just every couple of years, I could have a possible solution. First, if you have a gauge with an actual needle, make note of where the needle rests when the car is running. At idle, or at slow cruising speeds, check to see if the needle leans over toward discharge, even slightly, but consistently. Then check to see if the needle pegs over toward charge when you give it gas from idling. The needle should basically always sit right in the middle, except for momentary movements. But check to see if the needle has wild variations from one extreme of D all the way over to C. If yes, then you may have a bad voltage regulator. On your '87, that is probably a small, rectangular, chrome or black box mounted to the firewall with a three-prong plstic plug with little holding clips going to it. It is a switch that tells your alternator when to send a charge to the battery, and when to leave the battery alone and just provide electricity for running the car's systems (OK, sorry for the informal explanation). If your voltage regulator isn't working, your car may just run off the battery, even though the alternator may be just fine, and so as you drive, the battery gets progressively drained down from firing the spark plugs and any other things like the heater blower or headlights. The car may even quit on the road when the battery is drained dry, because there is no more juice left to fire the spark plugs. A new voltage regulator costs about $23 and takes 5 minutes to change out. You can test the charging system with a common multi-meter circuit tester. Your battery should have close to 12 (11 to 13) volts, and your alternator should always be putting out at least 13.5-14 volts at idle. When you rev the engine, that voltage may momentarily increase to something like 15 or 16, but if the voltage regulator is working, that should immediately drop back down to about 13.5. To test the alternator, put the black lead on the metal car body, and stick the red lead on one of the terminals on back of the alternator. There are two, so try them both to get a voltage--it doesn't matter which one you try first, you can't really hurt anything. Good luck.
Check your voltage reglater.
My car has the same problem, but I put a power kill that I just turn off... I don't know what the proble is either, but I bipassed it haha...
I had the power antenna kill my battery; it was broken and if it fell (a bit of tape around the base held it up) the motor would try to retract it. That took a bit of time to search down.
Or it might be the fusible link that runs on the drivers side of the car. I had the same problem, but bypassed it on an 87.
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