[s-cars] Need list wisdom.

[Mark Strangways]

You got 9 years out of the factory battery, you dog !!!
Damn, I can't get 9 years outta anything !

Thanks,

Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Pizzimenti" <pizzoman at yahoo.com>
To: "Mark Strangways" <strangconst at rogers.com>; "S-CAR at audifans.com"
<S-CAR-List at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Need list wisdom.


> Purchase Optima Red Top.
>
> I had some starting/cranking issues with the 9 year
> old stock battery, but once I put the red top under
> the rear seats, nothing but good strong starts.
>
> Pizzo
>
> --- Mark Strangways <strangconst at rogers.com> wrote:
> > Ok, just back from a long drive ( like 3 hrs).
> > Car ran fine as much power as I could use in the
> > snow storm. But once to my
> > destination, the car had to be boosted.
> > So I tried to be a could responsible power user and
> > conserve on the way
> > home, no heated seats, no stereo, no fogs.etc.
> > And once again caught home, and no start.
> >
> > I did measure voltages before shutting down. At idle
> > it was around 13.8
> > volts.
> > Turning on accessories dropped it to 13.5 but that
> > was with everything on
> > and at idle.
> > What worries me a bit is the fact that instead of
> > increasing with revs the
> > voltage actually decreased with more revs.
> > This is odd, kinda tells me my car has been reading
> > the tread about new
> > alternators and such.
> > Any collective thoughts ?
> > What is NORMAL idle voltage and what does it climb
> > to say at 3000 RPM ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Mark S
> >
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