Help needed please!

[bbenny]

Battery, alternator or something else!

hey guys, today i was driving my car and noticed the rev tacho not moving at all, just stuck on 0rpm. then when i started the car later the std boost gauge, oil pressure and water temp were all on zero... then as i drove on further the elec windows wouldnt go and then the power steering started to die...

my SAFC II still works and only reads 10volts.

is it simply a flat battery (it is a couple of years old now) or would it be the alternator? its just weird how things slowl began to stop functioning...

any ideas?

thanks!

Ben

[Roy]

When my alternator went on me during a trip into the city, similar story, + shocking knocking noise and Hicas light also came on when turned steering wheel then the car refused to run and died.

New alternator and problems were over...

[jtech]

check that your battery clamps are tight.

[bbenny]

oh man what a nighmare today was! spend bloody hours on it!

replaced the alternator, and the battery and the thing still had the same symptoms...

so after hours of fitting and refitting alternators and putting the cooler piping back in place i got the multi meter out, and checked each fuse under the dash, one of them was dead... replaced it and now everything works fine!

finished fitting the catch can too - with sexy braided lines

anyway my car is functioning 100% and purring like a putty cat!