noticed oil pressure was going down. car stalled and would not start, battery was dead?

Answer 1

sounds more like you lost oil pressure and your engine locked up. if your battery light and engine light were not on, your alternator was charging fine.

Answer 2

Here's how I read your problem... you're driving down the street happy as a lark when you notice you have very little power when you push the gas. You check the gauges and you notice the oil pressure going down and then everything more or less drops and the engine goes dead. You steer to the edge and try to restart the engine but nothing happens and all your lights are dim if on at all.

All this points to the alternator failing but failing in a way that didn't give you an idiot light on the dash. That light would have been the battery light. When the alternator failed, the battery began supplying all the juice necessary to keep the car running but could not recharge since the power to recharge the battery comes from the alternator. Slowly but surely, the battery power decreased with time especially if you had to use your headlights which take about 10 amps alone.

Once the battery couldn't support keeping the engine running anymore, the engine lost power and simply died. As it was losing power it couldn't produce the oil pressure and this showed up as decreasing oil pressure on the gauge.

Here's what you do next...

You will eliminate a lot of problems if you could tell us if the engine could be started using jumper cables hooked to another fully charged battery. If it won't start using cables, you could have a completely different, more expensive, problem.

If you have a battery charger, connect it to your battery and let it charge the battery for a day or two. If you don't have a charger, get one. A fully charged battery should allow you to start the engine and let you drive it to the nearest AutoZone (or equivalent) where they will hook up a diagnostic unit and tell you if the battery is bad, the alternator is bad, or both. Then, they will also be able to sell you the right part to fix the problem.

If you don't work on cars yourself, you will at least know what to tell the shop when you take it to them.

Good luck!

Answer 3

check the fan belt's. is the batery light burning on dash pannel. because that belt broke the alternater aint turning and aint charging the battery so that ends that the car died. this is what happened too me

Answer 4

Alternator died.