Well I went out to start the car this morning and I turn the key, it turns and budabump, it stalls.

I wasn't expecting it so, I didn't really pay attention until I realize that it stalled. So I wait about 30seconds with all accesories off, thinking it's the battery.

I turn, but the car just cranks and cranks. So I wait about a minute. I turn and very slowly it turns over. It felt like it wanted to die for about 5 seconds and finally got up and running into it's normal warp up range.

Well I took it to mt g/f's dealership, ran the volt meter.

While running it was cranking out 14volts

with the car off it was at 12volts

while starting it dropped down to 10 volts.

Does this sound like a dead battery. My 99 GSR has 73000 miles on it and the battery is the same one since I had it at 15000 3 years ago.

 

Thanks for all the help guys.

 

take the batt. to a place to charge it up for free..

they can tell you right off the batt if it will retain the charge

good luck

 

It could be the battery. The best way to check is to take it to autozone or something and they have a tester that will put a load on the battery and alternator. They can tell you if its bad or not.

 

If it only dropped to 10v WHILE the starter was cranking, it sounds good. That's pretty much what they do at AutoZone, put on a 80 or 100 amp load...

 

If it cranks and cranks, thats a good sign that its not the battery.

Since you took it to the dealership, what did they say was the problem??