first, i would like to say, please excuse any bad typing, im on my phone right now.

Yesterday i was leaving my girlfriend's apartment and it was raining out. So as i'm leaving i turn on my windshield wipers. i notice the wipers are moving VERY slow so im thinking what the hell is goin on here.

I turn on the main road and about half way down the road my radio gets all quiet. so i look down and i notice my gagues are going crazy, the needles juming around. so i get the idea to turn off the car at the light and turn iit back on. well once i did that, the car wouldnt crank, it wouldnt even try to turn over.

i still get all my battery power, it just wont turn over. so i push to a parking lot and go over all my ground wires and i hit the starter with a screwdriver for a while incase it was stuck.

well i just barely got it to turn over. so i got back on the road but i had to drive with no gagues working and no electronics (clock, radio, lights, hazards, wipers, etc)

i pull in the garage and turn the car off and all my electical components turn back on.

HELP WHATs WRONG!?!

cliffnotes: car shut off in traffic, pushed it to a parking lot, finally got it to crank,had to rive home with no gagues or electrical components.

thanks,
jake

 

i would also like to add that its a ls/vtec motor

 

your alternator is bad, and took the battery with it.

 

thanks for the quick reply

 

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Sure looks that way. Check the belt to the alternator first.

 

Might as well check the fuses and relays that may have gone bad due to that incident

 

thanks for the replies. ill check the alternator belt when i get home and then go from there, i will also double check the relays.

thanls guys

 

one more quick question, if i go up to discount auto do i have to get an alternator specific to the b18b or do i just tell them the year of my civic?

sory for the newbish questions