I was driving to work and my stereo went out. As I got closer all my interior and exterior lights were very dim. Hooked up jumper cables to another car and the car worked fine. Could it be a dead cell in the battery? Can a battery be to large for a car?
2006-08-02 21:01:22 · 6 answers · asked by steeler1933 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
First, make sure there is a good connection at the terminals. If there is a white or black powder on the terminals pour a solution of water and baking soda on them to neutralize the acid on the terminals. To test cells separately you need a hydrometer but many bat tries are sealed so you can't do that. Go to an auto parts store and have them test the battery. No, the battery can't be too big for a car.
2006-08-02 21:15:43 · answer #1 · answered by Track Walker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Couple of techniques. you may in simple terms circulate to someplace like autozone or strengthen automobile areas and that they are going to try your battery for unfastened. it would desire to be a bad alternator to boot which they additionally will try. discover somebody with a stable battery and placed it on your automobile and verify out the voltage output from the battery with the automobile working with a voltmeter. If it quite is analyzing decrease than 13 volts and secure, the alternator isn't charging the battery correct. that's the alternator or the fusible hyperlink or fuse. If it reads 13-15 volts, then your battery is probable at fault. easiest method is to easily take it to get examined for unfastened.
2016-12-11 05:45:45 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you got a battery with access to the cells (cap on them) Remove caps start the engine after awhile if the cells looks like its boiling, sign of shorted cell.
2006-08-03 00:41:21 · answer #3 · answered by retired_afmil 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-03-05 01:49:42 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
battery cell is dead
2006-08-02 21:39:00 · answer #5 · answered by crazylilangel_91 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take it to a napa or auto zone they should have a tester that will show each cell and also to amount of charge in it for free.
2006-08-03 12:15:25 · answer #6 · answered by rwings8215 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋