Okay so I'll start from the beginning. My check engine light came on yesterday throwing code 72 and 41. Meaning cylinder 2 is not firing and 02 sensor heater or wire is bad. Still drivable from my understanding till I could get what I need to fix.

Well on the way home tonight my radio turns off, headlights got real dim, and then my tach and mph stop working. Next my car starts bogging not accepting gas so I pull over on the side of the highway since it isn't going anywhere. The car immediately dies. I try to start back up but it just clicks like battery is dead. So I get someone to jump it and let it run for a few minutes, then turn on headlights and try to drive but car dies, tried again and same result.

So I run out to by a new battery before stores close and install it and the car made it home, not using my fogs or radio. Could this be a bad battery, altenator which I just replaced 9 months ago, or starter? Thx

 

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mine did the same thing today man, i would like to know this as well, exactly what urs did

 

The reason why my car died the way it did was because my altenator sensor fuse under the dash blew. I just replaced that and car runs fine as well lights are bright, radio loud, cluster works, and no bogging. So check that fuse in your car.

 

sounds like a garbage *** ground wire coming loose or not connecting. thats what wacked that fuse for me.
there are some major ground points in your car. if you dont have dielecric spray just fukkit and sand it.

first check the transmission to chassis ground. If its REALLY hot its not doing its jobb of shunting full power to the chassis. Most likely your problem.
Disconnect the wire comepletely and sandpaper the contact area down to bare metal. try to coat the area with a dielectric. like for car batteries. and wire it back up.

Then make sure the wire harness ground, located behind the starter towards the middle back of the engine, is tight.
then check the valve cover to chassis ground. I am actually grounding my transmission to both my valve cover ground wire and the transmission ground.

then disconnect the battery ground and do the same sand down/spray trick.

then check the ground up under the passenger side of the dash. wayyy up above the ecm on the sidewall.

then the same for ground on the drivers side.

let me know!

 

While your car is running at idle, take a volt meter(on DC volts) and put it on the battery at the posotive and negative terminals... Should read 14.1 volts or close. If it doesnt then you have a bad alternator or a bad reference wire to the alt.

 

thankyou sirs I will be checking ground locations as well checking the voltage. Thumbs up to both of you