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bad cable connection

 
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Brought the battery to get it tested... supposed to be putting out 690 cca, it was putting out 444. So Im charging it up tonight. I pray to god that was it.

Other news, I finished my nite shading! Had to do somthing to bring my mood up.

 
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well i hope that works out for ya i dont know **** about electical stuff so i cant help out any but i bet the night shades look post up some pics asap

 
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yeah battery didnt work. Im so stumped. I dont get why it would start once and not again. A guy on another forum was thinking ignition system.

 
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the same thing happened to my 94 v6
i replaced the alternator and it worked fine
of course after abut a month of testing to see what was wrong

 
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I think I may have figured it out. I took my battery out and made sure it was still charged up. I came back, and thought I would give the remote start a try. It wouldnt go, then I realized that the hood was up... wont start with the hood up. So I put the hood down, started right up. Let it warm up, powered it down, tried with the key a couple times, worked perfect. I was like WTF. Im thinking this whole time it was safety shutdown from the alarm... which would make perfect sense. criminal cuts power, and its a safety feature to keep the car from starting, after all it was killing the starter, or so it sounded.

As for now its been working, so thats the only solution I can come up with. Its a viper 791xv somthing or other if anyone knows about alarms.

ps. chad did you fubar the site up?

 
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wow what are the odds of that?!
(if it was me i wouldnt have figured that out till next year lol)

 
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Yes I have heard of that before of it going into security mode with them alarm systems. Glad you got it going again though.

 
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I still say you had a loose battery cable, and when you put it back together it was fixed. If it was the alarm it wouldn't have shut everything down with the key (the underhood pin is a safety thing for mechanics)

 
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i would say secutiry system my viper system did it to me once and it was on like valet mode or somthing. almost exact same thing happened but i did end up swapping batteries too along with it.

 
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yeah but I took the battery in and out several times... It all leads down to the hood was up every time I tried to start it. Possibly would have been a loose cable, but it only tightens to a certain point like any other thread... and I did it the same every time.

 
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who knows, and as long as it works who cares right lol

 
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yeah yesterday I kept pondering it afterward, until finally im like **** it, I dont care if its working, ive stressed enough over it already haha.

 
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Well right now I have my old alt in, and I dont have my stereo hooked up, so its a bit gay.

My question is, are there aftermarket alts I should be looking at with my added weight of the stereo and/or alarm? Im just wondering if a stock replacement should/will be fine with my stereo in there now, or will it kill it shortly? Im gonna try to swap in a new alt here soon at my apt, just wondering if I should stick with a stock replacement or upgrade? TIA.

 
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stock should be fine for you, the aftermarket ones are for guys running huge systems