5/22 - Still having problems with this and my battery and alternator check out fine.

EDIT: Checked my battery and found that one of my terminals was somehow loose. Problem solved!

I brought my hatch out of a 6 month storage and am having some electrical trouble. During the last week I've noticed some problems with a few things which have lead to the engine not turning over at all.
At first my turn signals started acting up: upon signalling, the blinkers would flash irregularly, return to normal for a few seconds and then back to a wierd pattern. Besides that, my radio started turning off at random times, mostly during idle; it would then return after blipping the throttle, but not for long. A couple days ago I noticed that the engine would sputter during vtec ingagement, sounding kinda like low fuel pressure, which I later found wasn't the case. Last night, after being parked for about an hour, the engine wouldn't turn over at all; the gauge cluster lights would light up pretty dim in the on position but no response from the starter whatsoever.

Aside from all this, my car alarm has also been acting up during this last week. I would experience random chirps and full alarm blasts at any given time, so I've disabled it since. I've never had so many issues all at one time. Hopefully there is a single source to all this complication.

Can anyone diagnose me??

Does this sound like the battery or alternator?


Modified by 8point6 at 3:48 PM 5/19/2007


Modified by 8point6 at 11:04 AM 5/22/2007

 

first i would check the harness for chewed up wires, rats might have chewed thru some stuff with it being in storage for so long

 

Shiet, for the price of storage today they better not have a rodent problem.

Found the problem! - I went out and tested everything with a voltage meter. The battery was giving some up and down readings, so I tightned up the pos terminal a bit and tried the ignition again. It started up fine so I gave it a test drive; everything seems normal again. Easy fix!

 

having issues again!