Friday And Car Conked Out!

[d00dz]

Well what a nite!

Decided to drive the car.

Everything is fine. I was at the street towards Jess's, at the lights I felt car limping, then head Unit died. Traffic light changes to green! So I had to move otherwise id be stuck there. I managed to limp it past the speed cameras. Then felt car about to die, no electrics or very little was working. luckily I was able to pull over on the side. Stopped. Car went dead. errr zomgwtfbbq!

Didn't know what to do. Checked phone book see who would be able and knows stuff called up Norm, he said to check intercooler pipes, checked, nothing wrong, check fuses, nothing wrong, checked battery, nothing wrong.

Decided to call Lizjane to help me jump start car (couldnt clutch start it as I was going up a hill and there were heaps of cars coming up my ass) see if that works or not... Called her.. THANKS! But luckily a P plater (Justin) in a Mazda? Pulled over, He had jumper leads! ooo. Called LJ not to worry. He said yea I can help ya, because my integra (Maybe wrong) usually has this issue too.

Jump start car.. It starts... they leave... I rev it a bit.. car's battery would fall to 9volts... then 7 then 5!!! zomg wtf... Rang a few other people. Dave/Norm/LJ/ Sms'ed everyone lawl Figured no where I can get car working.

Decided that I had to get a towie... Norm SMS'ed me some, but they didn't have any cars avaliable. Luckily I used my 3's LocalSearch feature to go on the internet and I was able to find a towie where I had stopped. Didnt even need to type in my location!. How cool

Anyways ring towie, he said yea $150 back home I was expecting more, but hey desperate times desperate measures. 1.5hrs later he finds me and Tows the car back home. Managed to push the car into the garage.

During my waiting time.. I was bored and used MSN on my fone hehe

Notes/Thank You!'s:

Im very surprised that the first person to pull over and offer assistant was a P plater and his sister/gf? (In another car) stopped to give me help.

Then another taxi asked if I needed help.

Then another P plater slowed down and was going to pull in, but I didnt need them so they pulled out.

Another taxi slowed down asking if I need help.

An old dude and his famiy in a 4WD slowed down asking if I was ok.

Thanks all for asking if I was ok...

Thanks also to: Norm/Lizc0rrrr/Dave/Steve-o/Ed/LizJane/Corinne/Jess/Mansoor/Supra James/Mr Teh/Beau/Chris/Other Chris. And everyone else who replied to my sms.

Lets hope I can get this fixed before Sunday's cruise or DECA!

Problem: I think my alternator is broken, since the battery is new (~4weeks). Starter motor is ok, starts fine. Just that when it starts the alternator isnt charging the battery so it conks out.

Solution: Sorting out if I can borrow an alternator tomorrow.

Anyone selling a R33 gtst alternator or know where I can get mine reconditioned?

[Craved]

Like i said in my sms Doodz, the alternator will more than likely be rebuildable .. if you find one cheap then buy that and replace it, either way the old ones gotta come out.

try another battery if you have it, then read the voltage at the battery, if lesds than 13.5 volts then it confirms your alternator is kaput.

[GoldZilla]

Sometimes, also Vic, it could be something as minor as the regulator on the alternator. Have that checked too, see if you can borrow one to compare as per Chris' method above.

[wilch]

Sounds like the alternator dude.

What a night for ya.

[sh@un]

at least it'll be an easy fix =\

[S13Deviat]

Exact same thing happened to me in the Cefiro on the M2..... head unit went... then lights.... then D.E.A.D.... got mate to come jump me... off i went... 1km down the rd... D.E.A.D.... call towie... $120 + 3hrs later pushed POS car in garage... BEER OCLOCK!

[D_I_F]

That poor nugget!

[evil_weevil]

yeah sorry to vhear that Vic

Sorry I couldnt do much at all for you

Hope the car gets fixed asafp!!

[wilch]

I've driven a car from Castle Towers all the way back to Cherrybrook with a screwed alternator.

Only made it home cause I kept my heel on the accelerator every tme I had to slow down or stop. If the revs got below 4500rpm the engine would start to die.

[Beer Baron]

yeah i've had altenator die on the GTST. of all places it died as I was pulling into the inspection station at silverwater. I had to push it into the inspection bay! haha. all I did was get my old man to go home and pinch the battery out of the GTR. I drove as far as I could till the GTST battery died, then did the same on the GTR's battery.

[Sass]

bugger

[Haysey]

bugger vic, i had mine start to fail not far from mine... managed to get one from JJ or some wreckers... bit of swearing and help i got it in the next day pretty easily... not really hard... just annoying..

Do do do another one bites the dust!

[N1GTR]

Easy fix

At least it wasnt a bearing or a turbo that f**ked out

[d00dz]

Yea.. Getting it removed and gonna rebuild it.

[d00dz]

Update....

So I got a 2nd hand alternator from j j supposedly it was "working" I put it on car did the same thing, it wouldnt charge at all.!!

So I decided to take my old alternator to grey imports and have it rebuilt. Was suppose to pick it up last Friday but I was lazy. So I got it today. Put that back into the car and BAM straight away car's volts would goto 14.5v and max 14.6 and no higher.

Now everything is working fine! w00t

btw I did all the work myself, after Norm helped me remove the first alternator.. I put the 2nd hand one back on. Removed the 2nd hand one THEN put back the rebuilt one. Im kinda like an expert now!

Pretty happy that I did work on the car, not being a mechanic and a n00b etc...

See here for tut on how to remove/put alternator on car.

[Abo Bob]

Go you.

[Wink]

So I got a 2nd hand alternator from j j supposedly it was "working" I put it on car did the same thing, it wouldnt charge at all.!!

Are you going to get a refund?