More Trouble

nolyaw · Post by **nolyaw** » 16 May 2009, 16:24

Hello, I have been lurking here since I bought my 1999 1 owner LPT C70 Cabriolet a couple of weeks ago. The car is right at a 105K. It was in need of some serious maintanence when I got it. It had the ETS light, CEL, and service light on. I installed a complete PCV system, cleaned the TB and intake manifold and all related intake tubing, an IPD TCV and silicone vacum lines, 4 new plugs, new timing belt kit, serpentine belt, cabin filter, K&N filter, Turbo drain seal kit, Pass. side drive axel, T-stat, flushed the tranny and coolant, changed the fuel filter, an upper IPD poly mount, with lower tranny mount. The car started up and ran PERFECT. Idled perfect, ran out great, boosts at 5 PSI, I pounded on it up and down the highway, came to a stop, runs perfect. Well, today I was going down the road at about 30 MPH when the ABS light, BRAKE light, and TRACS light came on. At the exact same time, the burned out bulb indicator came on, it blew the left side brake light. Car still ran good, just the lights were on. So then I left about an hour later, all the lights were off. Turned the car off at the various stops I had to make, It started fine every time. Then on my way home, the ABS light, TRACS light, SRS light and ROPS light came on. ABS light and TRACS light would go out when I was not touching the brake. So I came to a stop light, then the car would barely move, kept cutting in and out. Then it would just idle, would not rev up or go at all. So I turned it off, and tried restarting it, but the starter would just click. So I jumped it, fired right up. Put it in drive would go for like a quarter of a mile, then it would just idle, not rev up. Turn it off, back on, dead battery. Battery is showing 11.5 volts, should be around 13.5-14.v. During this whole time, I never got the battery light to come on. Cables are tight, battery has never showed any signs of a low charge, car was just down for 2 weeks, then put back together and fired right up. Any ideas?

Post by **vegasjetskier** » 16 May 2009, 16:37

I'd start with the battery. Take the car to a local auto parts place and have them test the battery on a load tester. If the battery's OK, I'd look at the alternator next. Also, check the connections to the battery and the grounds and make sure they're clean and tight.

nolyaw · Post by **nolyaw** » 16 May 2009, 18:05

One interesting thing was that when I went to go replace the burned out brake light bulb, I noticed that the rear foglight bulb on that side (drivers) was not in there. I put a bulb in, then thats kind of when all this happened. I took it back out. My connections are good. I would think that the battery light would come on if the alt. was bad, indicating that the volts had dropped. I may just go buy a new Optima, Iw onder how they fit in the tray?

nolyaw · Post by **nolyaw** » 17 May 2009, 17:20

Well, it was the alternator. I replaced it (fairly easy job), and all is well. Battery reads 13.8v when the car is running now, 12.7 when it is off. Just bad luck, I guess.

Post by **vegasjetskier** » 17 May 2009, 17:28

Glad you got it fixed.