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Offline Electric Eye

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Re: Car Problem
« Reply #20 on: February 21, 2007, 05:34:13 pm »


Max has the STS up and running, everyone look out!  ;D
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Re: Car Problem
« Reply #21 on: February 22, 2007, 06:19:50 am »
Quote from: Brush Wolf on February 19, 2007, 08:43:12 pm
That isn't bad. It cost me just under $300 for a Delco on my 1990 Bonneville but I would guess that mine is easier to work on. You may luck out on the battery as I have taken them down to nothing trying to start cars at -25 and they still lasted till the 60 month guarantee expired.

Yeah, your Bonnie doesn't have a V8 crammed into the space your V6 sits.  Plus I have a full Liter advantage over your car too. 

That's the biggest advantage of the lead-acid battery: you can drain them to nothing and they'll still come back to a full charge  :thumbsup:
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Re: Car Problem
« Reply #22 on: February 25, 2007, 11:54:30 am »
Glad to hear all is good, but I'd consider a battery anyway. Car batteries weren't meant to be 'deep cycled' and if it froze when it was dead it's definitely toast. If the new alternator needs to be replaced under warranty they may void it because the battery was 'deep cycled' and may have fried the alternator. It's your call but if you've driven alot with the charge light on or had more than a half dozen jumps you really need to replace the battery (especially on your car).
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Re: Car Problem
« Reply #23 on: February 25, 2007, 01:51:00 pm »
I have a Nissan Altima and yet to have done any major repairs on it. Its a '98.

My car is nearly 10 years old w/ 77000+ miles on it. :)
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Re: Car Problem
« Reply #24 on: February 25, 2007, 05:16:17 pm »
I'm using  a 1991 Nissan primera, that i only paid £100 for.
So far I've replaced the radiator, alternator belt, power sterring belt, one of the CV joints, and all the brakes... and I've had it a year. It's got just over 80,000 miles on the clock.

I've had to do a fair bit of work, but then for what i paid, it's great... sadly, my shock absorber and the spring on the passenger side went this week, and I have to wait until tomorrow to price the parts.... And I'm on the lower end of my student loans for this semester..... And trying to write my dissertation...

It had to go wrong at the exact time i needed to be on the road!!!

Cars, I love them, but they just love to give you grief at the wrong time.
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Re: Car Problem
« Reply #25 on: February 25, 2007, 06:53:50 pm »
Quote from: dragoon on February 25, 2007, 05:16:17 pm
I'm using  a 1991 Nissan primera, that i only paid £100 for.
So far I've replaced the radiator, alternator belt, power sterring belt, one of the CV joints, and all the brakes... and I've had it a year. It's got just over 80,000 miles on the clock.

I've had to do a fair bit of work, but then for what i paid, it's great... sadly, my shock absorber and the spring on the passenger side went this week, and I have to wait until tomorrow to price the parts.... And I'm on the lower end of my student loans for this semester..... And trying to write my dissertation...

It had to go wrong at the exact time i needed to be on the road!!!

Cars, I love them, but they just love to give you grief at the wrong time.

The belts, brakes, shocks, and even the CV joints are wear and tear parts. So I would say you got one heck of a deal there.
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Re: Car Problem
« Reply #26 on: March 01, 2007, 11:11:37 am »
Quote from: KBF K MalaK on February 25, 2007, 11:54:30 am
Glad to hear all is good, but I'd consider a battery anyway. Car batteries weren't meant to be 'deep cycled' and if it froze when it was dead it's definitely toast. If the new alternator needs to be replaced under warranty they may void it because the battery was 'deep cycled' and may have fried the alternator. It's your call but if you've driven alot with the charge light on or had more than a half dozen jumps you really need to replace the battery (especially on your car).


I only drove it like that home and to the shop.  Bu then I have no idea how old the battery is since the car it's in sat on the car lot a year before I bought it.
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Re: Car Problem
« Reply #27 on: March 02, 2007, 06:37:10 am »
Quote from: Brush Wolf on February 25, 2007, 06:53:50 pm
Quote from: dragoon on February 25, 2007, 05:16:17 pm
I'm using  a 1991 Nissan primera, that i only paid £100 for.
So far I've replaced the radiator, alternator belt, power sterring belt, one of the CV joints, and all the brakes... and I've had it a year. It's got just over 80,000 miles on the clock.

I've had to do a fair bit of work, but then for what i paid, it's great... sadly, my shock absorber and the spring on the passenger side went this week, and I have to wait until tomorrow to price the parts.... And I'm on the lower end of my student loans for this semester..... And trying to write my dissertation...

It had to go wrong at the exact time i needed to be on the road!!!

Cars, I love them, but they just love to give you grief at the wrong time.

The belts, brakes, shocks, and even the CV joints are wear and tear parts. So I would say you got one heck of a deal there.
Sadly the problem with my shocks was related to teh bushes, and the strut arm.... and I found a large weld job on a stress point just behind the shock....
As i'm a poor uni student... at least until June, I can't afford to fix the problems, while also having to pay the UK governments stupid road tax prices etc... so I have to sell my Nissan for spare parts, or send her off to be scrapped... very sad. At it means i'm without transport for a month, starting at the end of March.

I'll be sorry to see the car go, it was my first one I ever owned..... oh well.
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