long post but im trying to get all info in i can for this...squeel while driving, throws bettery light, then car shuts off, now it wont start..
ok, it started a few months back when i loaded my new tune... i noticed the battery light started flashing..under full throttle it would go away.. after about 10 minutes of driving it would go away and not come back on the rest of the day... it only did this twice...i know sometimes new tunes can cause lights to come on until a little bit of a break in and thats all i thought it was..
when i swapped my intake manifold i noticed the ground terminal on the battery was loose..i figured that might have been the problem...tightened it... no light since then... that was about a month ago...
friday i drove the car and on the way to work, the battery light came on and stayed on almost the whole drive to work...i only drive 9 miles but in traffic and the way the roads are there it takes anywhere to 20-30 min. to work... about 5ish minutes before i reach work it goes away...stays off the rest of the day..
sunday, i drove the car and same thing...light comes on and stays on 3/4 of the way to work...flashes a few times and even turns off when at wot...so i figure my alt. is going bad since i just put a new belt on a week ago and the bettery is also brand new..
when i take it to lunch that day, i noticed a weird metalic ticking coming from the front of the motor as im sitting in line at the drive thru...when i leave it got a little louder...about 1 mile away i got to stop at a light and the bat light comes on and the car shuts completely off...i came to a stop...tried 3 times to start it and on the 3rd try it starts up... get it to work, pop the hood and can hear some ticking coming from somewhere in the accessories...
on the drive home, at first the ticking is low...but by the time i get to my road its really loud and increases during throttle and every couple seconds i get a weird squeeking noise like a pulley is freezing up... right as i get to my section of my road the battery light comes back on then the whole car shuts off...this time it wont start at all
all i get now it a weird bang when i turn the key...sounds like the starter engaging but thats all... i took the alternator to napa and they tested it and said it was fine...so with a new belt/battery/and a good alt. what could this be? i can turn all my pullies by hand and they spin freely with no noises....maybe napas machine screwed up?
i checked all my fuses and none of them are blown... i did notice when trying to make the vid of the starting noise that the theft light stays on after the key is turned....maybe something in my pats sytem effed up? but even if it did, why would i have gotten a squeeling/ticking noise? my oil pressure never raised or dropped, volts stayed normal, and the temperature guage was normal the whole time i was driving....
im at a loss of what this could be... the vid i made is in the process of loading but i will put it up as soon as it loads... any help is greatly appreciated
ok, it started a few months back when i loaded my new tune... i noticed the battery light started flashing..under full throttle it would go away.. after about 10 minutes of driving it would go away and not come back on the rest of the day... it only did this twice...i know sometimes new tunes can cause lights to come on until a little bit of a break in and thats all i thought it was..
when i swapped my intake manifold i noticed the ground terminal on the battery was loose..i figured that might have been the problem...tightened it... no light since then... that was about a month ago...
friday i drove the car and on the way to work, the battery light came on and stayed on almost the whole drive to work...i only drive 9 miles but in traffic and the way the roads are there it takes anywhere to 20-30 min. to work... about 5ish minutes before i reach work it goes away...stays off the rest of the day..
sunday, i drove the car and same thing...light comes on and stays on 3/4 of the way to work...flashes a few times and even turns off when at wot...so i figure my alt. is going bad since i just put a new belt on a week ago and the bettery is also brand new..
when i take it to lunch that day, i noticed a weird metalic ticking coming from the front of the motor as im sitting in line at the drive thru...when i leave it got a little louder...about 1 mile away i got to stop at a light and the bat light comes on and the car shuts completely off...i came to a stop...tried 3 times to start it and on the 3rd try it starts up... get it to work, pop the hood and can hear some ticking coming from somewhere in the accessories...
on the drive home, at first the ticking is low...but by the time i get to my road its really loud and increases during throttle and every couple seconds i get a weird squeeking noise like a pulley is freezing up... right as i get to my section of my road the battery light comes back on then the whole car shuts off...this time it wont start at all
all i get now it a weird bang when i turn the key...sounds like the starter engaging but thats all... i took the alternator to napa and they tested it and said it was fine...so with a new belt/battery/and a good alt. what could this be? i can turn all my pullies by hand and they spin freely with no noises....maybe napas machine screwed up?
i checked all my fuses and none of them are blown... i did notice when trying to make the vid of the starting noise that the theft light stays on after the key is turned....maybe something in my pats sytem effed up? but even if it did, why would i have gotten a squeeling/ticking noise? my oil pressure never raised or dropped, volts stayed normal, and the temperature guage was normal the whole time i was driving....
im at a loss of what this could be... the vid i made is in the process of loading but i will put it up as soon as it loads... any help is greatly appreciated