raining alot
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raining alot
i have a '91 vette witha k&n air filter..now it has been raining for like 3 days straight where i am and only drove the car about 20 miles those 3 days but today it was not raining so i decided to drive her alittle,the weather was 50 deg. ,i started to drive her around after i warmed it up alittle but after about 10 min. it seemed as it missed or something and the battery meter was jumping up and down between 12 and 16 so i drove it a little more and parked it in the drive way and left it on alittle more,by this time the jumping voltages were gone,i put on the defrost with heat at the end just to see and everything seemed normal,do vettes do this after a couple of days in the rain or is something wrong with the car?
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Re: raining alot (jackyy)
What you described isnt normal. The severity of your problem may be small. Did you have any check engine lights come on? 12-16 volts ( 16 is high) but the gauge in the dash isnt very accurate. If it had a miss mabye bad plug wires, plugs? Are they new? You need to do more testing and driving.. and if the problem is completely gone.. then it was a freak incident. Let us know more info.
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Re: raining alot (jackyy)
Well. without seeing how bad the miss was. And you said it went away. Try and drive it. See if you notice the miss again, or if you have full power or reduced power. Could have just been a freak of nature.
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Re: raining alot (jackyy)
Jacky,
A misbehaving car will not always trigger a SES light. It depends on the nature of the problem and if its cause is detected by the ECM programming.
For example, if you had mosture in your distributor, it would not set a code. I once saw the computer act up on my 90, and let me limp home in limp mode, and no code was set. They sometimes do it once and won't repeat it for years if ever.
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A misbehaving car will not always trigger a SES light. It depends on the nature of the problem and if its cause is detected by the ECM programming.
For example, if you had mosture in your distributor, it would not set a code. I once saw the computer act up on my 90, and let me limp home in limp mode, and no code was set. They sometimes do it once and won't repeat it for years if ever.
Flame Red
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