Just driving along and then car dies!
08-04-2009, 04:09 AM
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Just driving along and then car dies!
Yesterday, I left work thinking I was heading to the bucs training camp. I was wrong, I started up the car like every other time. Less than a mile from my work my car EPS AND ABS system blinks on and off, same with the tach and the car goes silent and turns back on again by itself and does this for the next 5 or so seconds till it finally went completely off... To be honest, it felt like someone kept pulling the plug off and on repeatedly! 
The crazy part is I'm now rolling at 40 miles an hour, there is nowhere to pull off because of ditches on both sides of the road and I also have rail road tracks ahead!! I also heard a train when I was walking to my car from the office, now I was like freaking out...
I made over the rail road tracks without an issue... and barely made into a parking lot... called AAA... I checked the battery.. I didn't notice the corrosion over one of the battery clamps until now.. AAA brought me a new battery ($114 battery).. they checked the Alternator, Starter, and the electrical system and the said everything was great... but moral of the story, I'm still glad this crap didn't happen while I was driving on the interstate or near the airport and missed the bucs practice... Now I have to find out my radio code!!
The crazy part is I'm now rolling at 40 miles an hour, there is nowhere to pull off because of ditches on both sides of the road and I also have rail road tracks ahead!! I also heard a train when I was walking to my car from the office, now I was like freaking out...
I made over the rail road tracks without an issue... and barely made into a parking lot... called AAA... I checked the battery.. I didn't notice the corrosion over one of the battery clamps until now.. AAA brought me a new battery ($114 battery).. they checked the Alternator, Starter, and the electrical system and the said everything was great... but moral of the story, I'm still glad this crap didn't happen while I was driving on the interstate or near the airport and missed the bucs practice... Now I have to find out my radio code!!
08-04-2009, 05:13 AM
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check the owners manual or inside the secret compartment areas for the radio code...should be a 5 or 6 digit number on a sticker somewhere
so did the new battery and or new terminals fix the issue?
so did the new battery and or new terminals fix the issue?
08-06-2009, 03:53 AM
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Yes! Now I just need to land this new job and then I'll be FI! After of course, (Listen up Barry) Buy a ring for the +1, tie the knot, go on a honeymoon on an Mediterranean cruise! Then I can be FI... that's a start on a happy ending! 
... I know, I know 
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