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Old Jul 4, 2010 | 11:05 AM
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Hi,
Today when I was driving my car, on several occasions, I briefly left without power.
At few times the speedometer and radio turned off and the car stopped.
I managed to get home and now I wonder what could be the problem?
Whether someone had a similar problem?
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Old Jul 4, 2010 | 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by vuk8691
Hi,
Today when I was driving my car, on several occasions, I briefly left without power.
At few times the speedometer and radio turned off and the car stopped.
I managed to get home and now I wonder what could be the problem?
Whether someone had a similar problem?
That has "grounding" written all over it. Get out your FSM (or check w/ someone that has one) and see what common ground affect all those things, clean up the contact and lugs, tighten it down and voila!

Could be something else, but that is a classic symptom of loosing a ground.

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Old Jul 4, 2010 | 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by vuk8691
Hi,
Today when I was driving my car, on several occasions, I briefly left without power.
At few times the speedometer and radio turned off and the car stopped.
I managed to get home and now I wonder what could be the problem?
Whether someone had a similar problem?
I would also check to see if it's time to change your alternator. That happened to me last week, and that was my problem.
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Old Jul 4, 2010 | 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul Workman
That has "grounding" written all over it. Get out your FSM (or check w/ someone that has one) and see what common ground affect all those things, clean up the contact and lugs, tighten it down and voila!

Could be something else, but that is a classic symptom of loosing a ground.

P.
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