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Old Feb 19, 2004 | 06:53 PM
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I got a problem! My car randomly will shut down. It'* happened four times now, three times it was just a momentary loss but once it shutdown completely.
A bad ground is my first suspect. Is there any easy way to track it down?
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Old Feb 19, 2004 | 07:14 PM
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Does the power dip all of a sudden?
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Old Feb 19, 2004 | 09:07 PM
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I would suspect dirty battery terminals and connectors. Time to clean them all with a wire brush.
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Old Feb 19, 2004 | 10:27 PM
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I went to start my car to take something to BonneMe and my interior lights just went out.
Well I went to look at my battery teminals just to make sure(I cleaned them when I put my Red Top in) and when I went to loosen the neg. connection and the power came back!
I looked at the terminals and they were clean.
I don't know whats going on but I re-set both the pos. and neg. to make sure there was a good connection.
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Did you clean the ends of the battery cables, too? You definitely have a bad connection there.
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Old Feb 19, 2004 | 11:00 PM
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Or at the other end....check the grounds. Including the connections in the maxifuse relay center.
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