Strange happening
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Strange happening
Some of you know I have been having trouble getting my new tire sensors recalibrated. Well l put it away and unhooked the positive wire to the battery and decided to deal with it next spring. It was nice here today in western IL. so I decided to take it for a ride. While hooking up the positive terminal a thought went thru miy head it would be nice if doing this would miraculously fix the porblem. It did. No more tire Service flashing and everything is working perfect. Now I am afraid to unhook the terminal again. LOL While I am at it, does anyone know why my convertible top on my 98 leaks so bad. You could **** on the top and it will run down inside onto the seats. ??? Mike
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Some of you know I have been having trouble getting my new tire sensors recalibrated. Well l put it away and unhooked the positive wire to the battery and decided to deal with it next spring. It was nice here today in western IL. so I decided to take it for a ride. While hooking up the positive terminal a thought went thru miy head it would be nice if doing this would miraculously fix the porblem. It did. No more tire Service flashing and everything is working perfect. Now I am afraid to unhook the terminal again. LOL While I am at it, does anyone know why my convertible top on my 98 leaks so bad. You could **** on the top and it will run down inside onto the seats. ??? Mike
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I could be wrong but I believe that everything that I have read says to unhook the negative terminal, not the positive terminal. Glad this worked for you. Kind of like rebooting a computer, right?
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I can't even let a little spray from the hand wash hit my top and it leaks onto the seats. I even tried putting some ripped cheap rainsuits on the top of the windows thinking this would stop the leak. Not. I have no idea where the leaks are coming from. I have a new top.
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glad to hear it worked. I was having an issue with my aftermarket nav and i unhooked battery and let set for awhile, reconnected and it works like new again.
go figure
go figure
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The other thing it could be is the clip along the top (I forget the name)
PM me with you e mail and I'll send you the a word doc .
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Electrically speaking it does NOT matter which terminal gets disconnected of reconnected first or last. I said, “electrically speaking”.
However, what does matter and it matters a whole lot is that whatever terminal is ground (modern cars are negative ground) is the terminal that should get “disconnected first and reconnected last”. The only reason to follow this order is to avoid a direct short to ground if the wrench makes contact with ground – virtually anything metal is ground.
In other words, if the negative (ground) terminal is still connected to the battery and the wrench connected to the positive contacts metal (ground) a tremendous damaging current will flow through the wrench.
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Electrically speaking it does NOT matter which terminal gets disconnected of reconnected first or last. I said, “electrically speaking”.
However, what does matter and it matters a whole lot is that whatever terminal is ground (modern cars are negative ground) is the terminal that should get “disconnected first and reconnected last”. The only reason to follow this order is to avoid a direct short to ground if the wrench makes contact with ground – virtually anything metal is ground.
In other words, if the negative (ground) terminal is still connected to the battery and the wrench connected to the positive contacts metal (ground) a tremendous damaging current will flow through the wrench.
Always unhook the negative first and hook it back up last!! If you happen to have a ring on the same hand touching said wrench.... ouch!! 