Could be simple but...

nofrills05 · Post by **nofrills05** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 3:53 pm

This could be as simple as a dead battery but I'll give you the low down.

Was driving back from work today (very short trip, 3 miles) and my gauges went berserk. The speedometer was bouncing around and the dummy lights were blinking sporadically. This occurred about 2/3rds of the way though the ride home and only lasted a minute or two. At the same time this happend the radio shut off.

I got home, turned the car off for about 5 min, then when to go out again and...dead. Wont start, the dash odometer wont even light and the dome light is off.

Battery? Alternator? Something else? gremlins?

I did a search for this but there are waaaaay too many threads on cars not starting.

eastwoodsn352 · Post by **eastwoodsn352** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 4:15 pm

It was definitely gremlins.

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 4:31 pm

Is your IOD fuse blown?

menigoz_rt · Post by **menigoz_rt** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 6:21 pm

That happened to me and it was the alternator. Most advance autoparts can do battery and alternator checks if you can get the car there. Or take your battery there and they can test that and if its still good then it eliminates that

darthroush · Post by **darthroush** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 7:36 pm

My battery was shit, and caused all sorts of problems, with what you are describing being the smallest of them all. Have the battery and the alternator checked to see which one is bad.

nofrills05 · Post by **nofrills05** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 8:56 pm

So it wasn't the IOD or alternator. It was a gremlin (aka my dad)!

It was simply miss communication. Last night my dad took out my battery (unannounced to me) to put it in my moms Neon to see if her battery was the problem on her car. When he put mine back he didn't tighten the positive cable all the way, it was very very loose. I guess when I hit a bump it knocked it even more loose and eventually wouldn't make a connection.

Tightened, problem solved

Forest Green 2k · Post by **Forest Green 2k** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:00 pm

eastwoodsn352 · Post by **eastwoodsn352** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:34 pm

I KNEW IT!

darthroush · Post by **darthroush** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 12:56 am

Battery...lol

DoubtedNeon · Post by **DoubtedNeon** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:25 am

good deal, same thing happened to me!

JRM · Post by **JRM** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:46 am

eastwoodsn352 wrote:It was definitely gremlins.