If your engine in your car seized up....?

Question

If the engine in your car seized up, would electricty (turning on headlights) not work also?

So does that mean that sometimes when your engine seizes up it kills the battery?

Answer 1

If the engine is seized, you could still turn on your lights, radio and windshield wipers (for a while, at least until the battery went dead). You could not, of course, get the car started, and in all likelihood, the starter motor would not function.

The engine seizing would not necessarily kill the battery, at least not simultaneously. As I stated, you would still have electricity until the battery dies.

Answer 2

The engine seizing up has nothing to do with the lights. The lights run off the battery. The engine turns the alternator which charges the battery. So as long as the battery is charged it will run the lights until it dies.

Answer 3

It would not kill the battery. If you think about it, you can run the accessorys with the key turned off, so it would be the same thing. The battery is usually killed when the operator continues to try to get the motor started even though it is ruined. The more you turn the key with no response, the more juice you drain from the batt.

Answer 4

my bro had a car once when the engine seized the electricty didn't work. one of my cars the electricty stilled worked so i think it's just what kind of car and what year

good luck
hope this helps

Answer 5

by the motor seizeing up mean the motor will not turn over, but will not hurt the light are any thing else,

Answer 6

Lights will come on as long as battery has juice and fuses not blown

Answer 7

only if the engine was hot enough to melt a wire then it would short out a circuit