car grumpage....

[Swimmer]

Raven, I eat at tha burger king, sometimes Picadilly, every time I spend a week up in new braintree. Glad you had the other battery.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Swimmer

Raven, I eat at tha burger king, sometimes Picadilly, every time I spend a week up in new braintree. Glad you had the other battery.

only wendy's did away with the transfat from their product line...
although.....all of that fast-food is known to be 50% fat....

burger king promised to dump it....a year later they still haven't
kept their word... McDonalds say they will by 2008... pffff...
like they care.... certain meds i have to take have weird side
effects... so occasionally i fall prey to the convience of fast food.

[Raider Ronnie]

Have the charging system checked out, sounds like the alternator is gone!

[Raven]

yeah Ronnie!
the alternator has had a high pitched whine for some time now
so if the old battery takes a charge it'll be new alternator time..

i bought the car (used) last july so it's not unusual

[EricW]

My car had a high pitched wine for a while too. It was my alternator.
Turned out it was causing some strange electrical happenings in my car. My clock on my stereo was running really fast, and every once in a while when I would depress the brake, my spedometer would go up. Really weird but all better now. Being lazy I didn't swap out my alternator right away and I had a good spare one in my garage too!. So one night driving home from boston just as I enter the tunnel, my battery light flickers a few times. Thank goodnes it hung in there til I got home. I took it out and You could see some of the wires in the coil burnt out. Car is a 92 with 48,000 miles. It only had 9,000 when I bought it 3 years ago and the alternator had been changed already. Those GM ones are not that great. I have had 4 of the same car and have always had to replace the GM alternator in it. I always go a shop in my town that is a specialty alternator/starter shop. Once you upgrade (only like 85.00) to one of theirs it is good for 100,000 +.
Eric

[Raven]

that you mentioned it Eric...
because my speedometer has been jumping around eratically
also....
so that further confirms the hypothesis that
the alternator is caput... thanks for the info.
my stereo and it's clock aren't working either.